The Hockey Museum’s hockey festivals study is progressing very well. We have compiled a list of all known festivals which includes the only three still held at Easter: Torbay, Skegness and Blackpool. All three will feature in a book on the history, development and sad demise of the hockey festival.

To demonstrate a rather wacky festival story, we present a post box from Blackpool which is surrounded by the members of Morpeth HC.

The Life President of the Blackpool Festival, George Robson, is from Morpeth and he discovered this rare and unusual post box in the back streets of Blackpool. Please don’t ask what George was doing in the back streets of Blackpool but he spotted that this was an Edward V111 example. These are very rare because he only reigned for a short while.

George informed Blackpool Council and the Post Office, and they decided to move it to a more prominent location. The chosen site was outside the main gates of the town’s Stanley Park, the home of the Easter Festival since 1951. It is now known as The President’s Box!

Hockey festivals were famous, indeed notorious, for unusual happenings, so if you have any wacky stories or anecdotes please send them to us – fittingly by way of a post box, but we will accept email!

Click here for the postal address or visit our contact form and select “festival hockey research” from the drop-down menu.