VIDEO: It’s a fairy-tale ball at Slindon pumpkin display

By The Newsroom
Published 12th Oct 2013, 10:00 BST
Pictured is Robin Upton and Arundel and South Downs MP Nick Herbert L41208H13Pictured is Robin Upton and Arundel and South Downs MP Nick Herbert L41208H13
Pictured is Robin Upton and Arundel and South Downs MP Nick Herbert L41208H13
A MAGICAL display is set to draw the crowds into the usually sleepy downland village of Slindon over the next few weeks.

Staff at Slindon Pumpkins have put together the annual pumpkin display, which this year depicts a scene from fairy-tale Cinderella, showing the princess dashing home from the ball.

Robin Upton, of the farm, who helped craft this year’s display, said he had been lucky with a bumper crop of pumpkins and marrows this season.

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“Last year we had a 90 per cent failure of the crop. It was very bad,” he said. “But this year it’s gone mad. August is usually a nice quiet month but this year it was incredible.

Pictured is Robin Upton and Arundel and South Downs MP Nick Herbert L41208H13Pictured is Robin Upton and Arundel and South Downs MP Nick Herbert L41208H13
Pictured is Robin Upton and Arundel and South Downs MP Nick Herbert L41208H13

“Everything was doing very well.”

It took Ralph and his team a total of 66 hours to arrange the display.