THOSE attending a flower festival in the north of the county came face to face with characters from one of the best-known children's fantasy novels last weekend.
Floral displays were joined by lifesize models straight out of the pages of the Chronicles of Narnia at the popular Pudleston Flower Festival.
Churchwarden Robin Wilson produced well-known characters from the Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe including Mr Tumnus, the White Witch and even Aslan.
Visitors travelled through a giant wardrobe to enter, while Aslan was made from newspapers, a cardboard box internal packing and chocolate orange boxes.
The festival, which took place on Saturday and Sunday, also showed how winter turned into spring, as it does in the novel, while the window sills featured the other books in the series.
Mr Wilson trained as a scenic artist at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, went on to work on West End productions and spent three years in Disney’s Lion King puppet department.
Next year's theme will be Glen Miller and the songs of the Second World War.
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