The White Horse Birthday Party

The sun shone as families and residents from Quakers Walk walked up to the White Horse to celebrate its 13th birthday on Saturday 29th September. Families from the Trinity and Nursteed schools joined in on the hill and the children made a garland of flowers for his neck and sat among the bunting on his back. Hannah had made a cake which Thelma had iced - Sarah Padwick blew the candles out, the Mayor cut the cake and everyone sang 'Happy Birthday dear Chalkie...'. While Thelma cut up the cake to share out, Alan Padwick told everyone gathered the story of how the Devizes Millenium White Horse had come to be cut in the chalk and a group called the Cavaliers had looked after it until responsibility was handed over to Roundway Parish Council in 2011. Noel Woolrych who had been Mayor for the Millennium and who had cut the first turf and other Cavaliers present added their stories too so we all learnt a lot about our white horse. Colin's kite flew high in the sky and the picnics were good too! Although there were not as many there as we had hoped, we all enjoyed it so much we thought we would repeat it again next September.