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The Whitstable Oyster Festival is an annual event held in Whitstable, Kent, England, each year to celebrate the town's links with the oyster industry. [1]
Hérault is a department of the Occitanie region of Southern France. Named after the Hérault River, its prefecture is Montpellier. It had a population of 1,132,481 in 2016.
Oyster is the common name for a number of different families of salt-water bivalve molluscs that live in marine or brackish habitats. In some species, the valves are highly calcified, and many are somewhat irregular in shape. Many, but not all oysters are in the superfamily Ostreoidea.
Urbanna is a town in Middlesex County, Virginia, United States. Urbanna means “City of Anne” and was named in honor of England's Queen Anne. The population was 476 at the 2010 census.
Whitstable is a seaside town on the north coast of Kent in south-east England, 5 miles (8 km) north of Canterbury and 2 miles (3 km) west of Herne Bay. It has a population of about 32,000.
Dainville is a commune in the Pas-de-Calais department in the Hauts-de-France region of France.
Oysterband is a British folk rock and folk punk band formed in Canterbury around 1976.
Fiddler's Dram were a British folk band of the late 1970s most widely known for their 1979 hit single, "Day Trip to Bangor ", which reached no. 3 on the UK Singles Chart.
Andernos-les-Bains is a commune in the Gironde department in southwestern France.
The Galway International Oyster Festival is a food festival held annually in Galway on the west coast of Ireland on the last weekend of September, the first month of the oyster season. Inaugurated in 1954, it was the brainchild of the Great Southern Hotel manager, Brian Collins. In 2000 was described by the Sunday Times as "one of the 12 greatest shows on earth" and was listed in the 1987 AA Travel Guide as one of Europe's Seven Best Festivals.
Říčany is a town in the Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. It has around 16,000 inhabitants, is located 20 km south of the center of Prague, and it takes about half an hour to get to the Prague Main railway station by train. The town is part of the Prague metropolitan area.
Carantec is a commune in the Finistère department of Brittany in north-western France.
An oyster festival is a food festival centered on the oyster. There are a number of oyster festivals worldwide, including the following:
Duncan Roy is an English film director and producer, script writer, art director and television personality.
Mèze is a commune in the Hérault department in southern France.
Seasalter is a village in the Canterbury District of Kent, England. It is located by the sea on the north coast of Kent, between the towns of Whitstable and Faversham, facing the Isle of Sheppey across the estuary of the River Swale. The settlement of Yorkletts is included in the ward. It is approximately five miles (8 km) north of Canterbury.
Whitstable Museum and Gallery is a heritage centre in Whitstable, Kent, with displays showing the history of the local oyster trade started by the Romans and of historical diving equipment.
Hampton-on-Sea was a drowned and abandoned village in what is now the Hampton area of Herne Bay, Kent. It grew from a tiny fishing hamlet in 1864 at the hands of an oyster fishery company, was developed from 1879 by land agents, abandoned in 1916 and finally drowned due to coastal erosion by 1921. All that now remains is the stub of the original pier, the Hampton Inn, and the rocky arc of Hampton-on-Sea's ruined coastal defence visible at low tide. The site is notable for sharing its history with the eccentric Edmund Reid. Reid was previously the Metropolitan Police head of CID who handled the Jack the Ripper case. In retirement he chose to champion the plight of the beleaguered residents of the settlement.
Oyster ice cream is a flavor of ice cream with a savory taste. After being recorded in a 19th-century cookbook, then forgotten for the next two centuries, the ice cream flavor has been offered at a number of 21st-century oyster festivals.
Rocky and the Natives are an English country rock band, formed in 2011 in Kent. The band is composed of songwriter/musicians Chris Godden and Malcolm Barnard (vocals) and featuring Jim Leverton (bass), Andy Newmark (drums) and Geoffrey Richardson.
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