Village Fete Celebrates Its 60th Anniversary with Business As Usual ; It Was 1949, Which Saw the End of Clothes Rationing, the First Tv Weather Forecast, the Publication of George Orwell's 1984 - and the First Dunchideock Church Fete.

Express & Echo (Exeter, UK) › June 05, 2009

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It was 1949, which saw the end of clothes rationing, the first TV weather forecast, the publication of George Orwell's 1984 - and the first Dunchideock Church Fete.

Today little has changed, the fete marks its 60th anniversary and the hoop-la is still on the same pitch as it always was.

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Village Fete Celebrates Its 60th Anniversary with Business As Usual ; It Was 1949, Which Saw the End of Clothes Rationing, the First Tv Weather Forecast, the Publication of George Orwell's 1984 - and the First Dunchideock Church Fete.

It is, in fact, a British summer institution still going strong - with the adde...

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