Category: Bungo in the Back Lanes (Page 4 of 5)

A huge ‘thank you’ to the following local businesses and residents who so generously donated prizes for our raffle at this year’s event:

La-Tea-Doh, Sainsbury’s, Marie Brown at Home, Hair Garden, Panda House, Sammy Dow’s, Floral Haven, Margaret Gillan, The Bungo, Rock n’Roller, Douglas Anderson, Locavore, Rum Shack, Christopher Robin, Zuccini, Allison Arms, Hairspray, S & A Smile Clinic, Juliette Hutchison, Buddy’s, Tapa, Victoria Barbers, Stevenson & Sons Drycleaners, Morya Jane’s, Queen’s Park Chemist, Little Botanica.

Thanks to one and all and for all your support of BITBL’s!

It was great that so many people were able to pick up their fabulous prizes on the day. However, we still have three that are unclaimed:

Pink tickets:86 to 90 Pink tickets:141 to 145 Pink tickets:476 to 480

Are you the winner of a prize? If so, contact me: chair@strathbungo.com

What an amazing day! Great stalls, activities and atmosphere. The weather wasn’t bad either! Thanks to all residents and local
businesses who set out their wares to create a day of fun and festivity for families friends and neighbours. The fantastic live music programme and contribution from Glasgow Sport really helped to make the day and keep people smiling. The visit to our event from our MSP and First Minister Nicola Sturgeon certainly generated a lot of smiles too – and selfies!!

Thanks for all the very positive feedback – we’ve really appreciated the posts and messages we’ve received telling us what a good day it was. As I’m sure you know, this event happens due to the good will, time commitment and hard work of a lot of people. It couldn’t happen without them – thanks to each and every one of them for helping to make Strathbungo the thriving strong community that it is.

Full coverage will be in the next Newsletter. In the meantime, if you have any comments, feedback or questions, please contact me: chair@strathbungo.com

We’re looking forward to seeing you all tomorrow for a great day with family, friends and neighbours! A programme of the stalls and activities we know about is detailed below, along with a map. No doubt there will be lots of good surprises on the day! The Strathbungo Society will also be warmly welcoming our area’s MSP, MP and Councillors to the event.

 

 

 

What’s on at Bungo in the Back Lanes

Lane 1

Residents’ stalls PLUS:

Ann Sievers-Henderson – general household items

Barbara Byrne

Children’s Garden – hosted by Merry-go-Round

Face Painting

Bouncy Castle – Harvest Bible Chapel

Live Music – Harvest Bible Chapel

Tai Chi Chuan demo – behind No 4 Regent Park Square

Shawlands Academy fundraiser children’s food, activities & toilet

(find them behind No 6 Regent Park Square)

Aline-Wendy Dunlop – plants, crafts, teas

Caitlin De-Lyon – kids toys

Cross-Lane 1B

Residents’ stalls PLUS:

Architectural Trail – self directed activity. Pick up trail info from

1, Moray Place main entrance on Nithsdale Road – just up from

Sammy Dow’s

Lane 2

Residents’ stalls PLUS:

Mulberry Street Bar & Live music – see separate music programme

Trudy Dow – homemade cards and gift items

High Rise Bakers- social enterprise offering bread & cakes

Kirstin Beaton – vintage clothes and upcycling

Glad Café & Ranjit’s Kitchen – enjoy some beer and wine with the

food too!

Cross-Lane 2B

Residents’ stalls PLUS:

Bakery 47 & Funinacup coffee

Cross-Lane 2A

Residents’ stalls PLUS:

Pop-up pakora & samosas

Lane 3

Residents’ stalls PLUS:

Mulberry Street Bar Area – behind 10 Marywood Square

Live music – beside bar area

Strathbungo Society Tea Garden with live music

Lynsay Meffen – home made cards

Karen C airns – original artwork, cards & giftware

Strathbungo Society Stall & Raffle – buy raffle tickets here!

Cats’ Protectiton League

Babu Kitchen – pakora etc

Strathbungo Society Tombola Stall

Stephen O’Neill – original art work

Shimla Pinks – pakora etc

Gusto & Relish – delicious fare

Cross-Lane 3B

Residents’ stalls PLUS:

New Victoria Gardens – flowers, plants, jams and preserves

Strathbungo Society Bottle Stall – buy raffle tickets here too!

Then & Now Picture Show – garage of 52 Marywood Square

World Challenge Stall – Shawlands Academy pupils

Lane 4

Residents’ stalls PLUS:

South Seeds

Pizzacato – pizza baked in real pizza oven: behind No 5 Marywood Square

Live music – behind No 5 Marywood Square

Caroline Stafford – Swedish massage

Martin Capaldi – Surf Dogs: gourmet hot dogs

Pram Park – behind No 3 Marywood Square

Cross-Lane 4B

Residents’ stalls PLUS:

Violin Music performed by young students – behind 31 Moray Place

Home baking

Loch Fyne Seafood Barbecue – behind 27 Moray Place

Live music – behind 27 Moray Place

Cross-Lanes 1A, 3A & 4A   Residents’ stalls

Lots of other surprises & pop-ups!

Look out for: Maker’s jewellery workshop,

Gitte Griffith books, vintage crafts & bags

Christopher Robin Café

 Lane 5

Residents’ stalls PLUS:

Lynn Wilson – food & handmade cards

Children’s bric-a-brac stall

Strathbungo Society Children’s stall – buy raffle tickets here!

Live music – behind 53 Vennard Gardens

Glasgow Sport activities & coaching for children & young people

Euan Shields – hand made shabby chic house items

Hot dogs on fresh organic buns

Bungo Toilets: 1 disabled, 1 regular – behind 48 Thorncliffe Gardens

 

With less than 5 days to go, stall-holders will soon be getting their wares together and residents counting their pennies to spend, as Bungo in the Back Lanes is happening this Saturday 20^th June from 1-4pm.

Famous for its residents’ stalls selling everything from bric-a-brac and jewellery to homemade food and clothes, Bungo In The Back Lanes is bigger than ever and now takes place between Nithsdale Road and Thorncliffe Gardens. People are free to open up their garden or bring a table full of goods they’d like to sell down to the lanes on the day. It is always exciting to see what appears on the day – previous years have seen lemonade stalls, races and antiques in a shed plus many other intrepid ideas.

Other features to look out for this year include: Loch Fyne Seafood BBQ; NV Allotments plant sale; Babu Bombay Street Kitchen; Merry Go Round’s Childrens Garden with bouncy castle; face painting and games for children; Glad Café Garden; Then and Now In and Around Strathbungo Picture Show; Glasgow Sport’s activities for children; Bakery 47, Swedish Massage; Architectural Trail plus live music from local bands in each lane.

 

It’s Bungo In The Back Lanes 2012 -4 so time to fill everyone in on the runners and riders.

We’ll have all your favourites – the beer gardens, tea gardens, children’s garden, plant stall, tombola, bottle stall and introducing our very first wheel of fortune (woo!) plus we’ve been inundated with info from residents about the stalls they are planning to hold.

We’ve got animators, DJs, musicians, masseurs, bakers, crafters, gardeners, martial artists, photographers, watercolourists, confectioners, chefs, card makers, de-clutterers, face painters, temporary tattooists, book sellers.

Some of the businesses holding stalls on the day are; Barefoot books, award-winning children’s books, Locavore cooking local and foraged food, Happy Holistics chair massage, Venues to Menus macaroons and cupcakes, crafts from Vintage Zebras, Finbo Deluxe and Sew Like Me, quirky homewares from Sparrow and Co, the world’s best sausage from Gusto & Relish and even the Avon lady. On the street rather than in the lanes, Merry-go-round are hosting a treasure hunt in store.

And that’s before we get to residents and charities, like the jams and preserves being sold to raise funds for the Glasgow Islay Gaelic Choir, Liz selling cakes and cards to raise funds for the Beatson Institute and  Orangutan Appeal UK, Nicola’s amazing cupcakes, Helen’s lemonade, Lyndsay’s home-made cards, bric-a-brac, tai chi demonstrations, curry in a cup, BBQs, Nicole’s clothes and books at 4 Moray Place, the return of Candylicious and the wonderful array of local artists including Karen Cairns, The Square Slice Boys, Sarah Barr, Kato Yeah and Laura Hudson Mackay.

For children there’s the Animated Emporium Of Curiosities and the children’s garden with its bouncy castle, face painters, outdoor games, bubbles and a sand pit for the wee ones.

A music lover? We have DJ sets from La Roche Rumba, live music from Dean Queasy and the Viennese Ensemble plus more DJs in gardens and live music in the Glad Cafe garden.

There really is something for everyone in all the lanes and don’t forget the event this year stretches from Nithsdale Road to Vennard Gardens, so bring your friends, suncream and a brolly and prepare to party on the cobbles.

We’ve had a few queries recently about food stalls and BBQs so we thought it made sense to have all the info in one place.

The Society obviously can’t dictate what people may choose to do in their private gardens but we do have to make sure we’ve considered all the risks to the public during the event and how to minimise them.

If you’re planning to serve food, you must contact the food safety department of Glasgow City Council who will examine the cooking premises being used prior to the event and spot-check on the day. Phone 0845 2701558 or email: foodsafety@glasgow.gov.uk

We’d prefer to keep BBQ and camping stoves etc to a minimum but if you are going ahead, as well as contacting Food Safety you also need to consider the fire risks involved. We have been informed by Strathclyde Fire and Rescue that The Scottish Executive has published guidance entitled “Practical Fire Safety Guidance for Places of Entertainment and Assembly.”

It’s free to download here: http://www.firelawscotland.org/v2893b.html?pContentID=221

The bottom line – keep flammable liquids safe, make sure you have extinguishers to hand and make sure anyone coming in your garden can get out easily and the Fire Service can enter easily!

If you have any concerns about potential health and safety risks, do let us know either before the event or by speaking to a Bungo steward on the day. We’ll also be out walking the back lanes every day next week to check access and hazards and keep on top of litter and fly-tipping (we hope!) Extra volunteers welcome!

With less than two weeks to go to the big Bungo bash, it’s time for an update.

Stallholders are getting in touch every day with their stall ideas and locations. Keep checking the Bungo map to find out what’s going on. And if you have grand plans, get in touch either via the blog or email chair@strathbungo.co.uk

If you want to set up a stall but don’t have a back garden of your own Queen/Regent and Regent/Nithsdale currently look like the lanes with most available space but, as ever, it’s hard to judge before the day itself.

Latest additions include:

The Glad Cafe on Regent/Queen Lane, pilates sessions and health and fitness info on Marywood/Queen and The Animated Emporium of Curiosities on Marywood/Vennard.

The Glad Cafe are hoping to open a place on Pollokshaws Rd in the near future. They will be at the back of No.41 Regent Park square with live music, bric-a-brac and tea/coffee plus paintings by local artists The Square Slice Boys.

The Animated Emporium of Curiosities will be behind 33 Marywood Square and features children’s games and animations by the team that brought you the animation workshops at Spring Fling,

The children’s garden will have a bouncy castle, a Merry-Go-Round bring-and-buy sale (do look out clean, good quality kids’ items to bring along), face painting by Fun Paint Factory, kindly sponsored by Eglinton Dental Practice and a stall from Barefoot Books plus a selection of fun village-fete style games to play and bubbles.

Our posters are now out and about and the flyers have just been printed. We’ll be dropping those off in local shops and businesses over the next few days. Get in touch if you’d like to help distribute any.

We’re also still looking for tombola/raffle donations (please drop off at 53 Queen Square) and a small freezer for the Marywood tea garden.

We’ve also taken a big gulp and sneaked a peek at a long-range weather forecast. It’s not likely to be hugely reliable this far out but it looks like sunny spells and 17 degrees Celsius with a chance of showers.

The event is always on and always fun come rain or shine but it would be lovely to have a bit of sun this year!

There’s a final planning meeting this Monday 18th, 7.30pm in The Bungo on Nithsdale Road. Do pop along if you’d like to help on the day or in the build-up.

Hot off the press (well, actually, not quite on the press) a sneak preview of our new-look poster for this year’s Bungo In The Back Lanes.

The posters will be popping up on lamp posts and in shops shortly – get in touch if you want to help distribute them. We love the redesign, thanks to local resident and Society member Niall Walker.

The flyers will be printed this week and it would be great to have extra help to get the word out, especially as the newsletter has already been delivered. Get in touch via the BITBL volunteers page, the comments thread, the contact us page or email chair@strathbungo.co.uk

We’ve had two extra stalls confirmed today – one in our new lane between Vennard and Marywood, selling art by Sarah Barr, and one cosmetics stall , location TBC. Keep an eye on the Bungo In The Back Lanes pages and map for updates.

The more stalls the merrier, so let us know what you’re planning. The Society are still on the hunt for a small freezer we can borrow for the Big Bungo tea garden and also a face painter for the children’s garden.