Rochester Day Trip on Sunday 5th May 2024 (Bank Holiday weekend)

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Here we have a lovely Spring day in Rochester over the May Bank Holiday weekend.

Medway Council no longer puts on the summer Dickens Festival.  Some of the local characters dress up and wander around the town centre during the weekend but there’s no programme of events and activities funded by the council. 

Rochester Sweeps’ Festival is a celebration of the coming of spring, and as May Day was also the traditional holiday for chimney sweeps or Climbing Boys as they were officially known, the two aspects have combined to produce a unique event. Expect lots of music, merrymaking and morris dancing alongside a Jack in the Green fertility figure personified and of course plenty of sweeps. Dancing takes place in the High Street over the whole weekend, and the Castle Gardens have a funfair, real ale and marquees for musicians.

Estimated times we travel always confirmed 3-4 weeks before the event.

WALNUT TREE 9.30AM

PALACE T 9.40AM

ELMS 10AM

THAMES D 10.10AM

HADLEIGH 10.20AM

KENTS HILL LIGHTS 10.30AM

SADLERS 10.40AM

FIVE BELLS BASILDON 10.50AM

We usually arrive around noon.  The coach drop off point is close to the High Street. We depart at 6pm.