A new Photo Gallery has been created just for YOU, the people of Saintfield!

Submit your interesting photographs, and you might see them here:

Photo Gallery for Saintfield People

Rob Jennings is a man with a mission.  He is researching energy use and the potential for a community energy project in Saintfield.  Rob and and his wife and children have been delivering leaflets about his project door to door around the village. You can read more about Rob’s research on his website:

sustni.org 

And please take a few minutes to complete Rob’s survey:

Saintfield Community Energy Plan Survey

To raise public awareness of his project Rob pitched his tent on Saintfield’s
Main Street, where a Saintfield resident completes a survey form.

A new page has been created for:
Saintfield Parish church “Jubilee” Fayre (02/06/12)

and new photographs have been added to:
Saintfield Library – 40th Birthday Party! (13/04/12)

Sharon Shaw has kindly sent in some photographs of the Academy Primary School’s “Jubilee Parade”.  They can now be viewed in our Photo Gallery – Jubilee Parade.

As part of the Fun Run & Family Day on Saturday 9th June
Saintfield Town Regeneration Committee
is bringing Art on the Railings to Saintfield!

Art on the Railings is an open air art exhibition, displaying Art & Crafts along the railings of Saintfield’s Main Street. Art on the Railings is a free event suitable for all the family.

You could watch artists demonstrating their skills or have-a-go and try your hand at painting!

Alternatively you could treat yourself to some unique work by local artists.

Starts at 10am on Saturday 9th June.

The annual Saintfield Show is taking place this year on 16th June, at Oughley Road, Saintfield.

For more details visit the Official Website.

The Saintfield horse fair in Comber Street.

Have you ever wondered what Saintfield used to look like?  Now you have the opportunity to see some wonderful old photographs of Saintfield which have been selected from the archives of Down County Museum.

Saintfield Heritage Society will be showing the photographs to the public at the Saintfield Parish Jubilee Fayre. At his event  the Society will have prints of old Saintfield on display, and a PowerPoint presentation showing Then And Now views of some of the most familiar scenes of Saintfield. Copies of the eight volumes of Saintfield Heritage, the Society’s excellent series of books on Saintfield will also be on sale.

The Jubilee Fayre, which is for all the family, will take place in the hall to the rear of the Parish Church, Main Street, on Saturday 2nd June 2012.  The event, which will feature many societies and clubs from Saintfield, will run from 10:00am – 3:00pm.

If you have any old photographs of Saintfield, then please bring them along and let us have a look at them. You might even let us add them to the DiscoverSaintfield website, or publish them in the next volume of Saintfield Heritage! Alternatively, you could email your photographs to:

 info (at) DiscoverSaintfield.com

The Olympic Torch being lit at the Temple of Hera in Olympia, Greece.

The Olympic Torch will be passing through Saintfield on Thursday 7th June. It will arrive from Crossgar at 08:41, and go through the town before heading off towards Ballynahinch. You can view the route map.

Three torchbearers will carry the Olympic Torch through Saintfield. You can read their nomination stories:

• Andrew Miller  (from Saintfield)
• Jim McDowell (from Belfast)
• Tom Purdon (from Newtownards)

Let’s see a big crowd all along the route to welcome the Olympic Torch
and provide encouragement for the three Torchbearers.

Send your photographs of the event to:
info (at) DiscoverSaintfield.com
and we will publish the best ones on the website!