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Extolling Knowle! Campaigners’ poetic picnic

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Simon Horn

Published: 3:01 PM September 10, 2013    Updated: 6:43 PM November 7, 2020
Caped Crusaders Oscar three and four year old Jake Burston at the Save Our Sidmouth picnic on Sunday

Caped Crusaders Oscar three and four year old Jake Burston at the Save Our Sidmouth picnic on Sunday. Photo by Simon Horn. Ref shs 8367-37-13SH To order your copy of this photograph go to www.sidmouthherald.co.uk and click on Photo Orders. - Credit: Archant

BUDDING bards in fancy-dress expressed their affection for under-threat parkland at Knowle with a poetic picnic on Sunday.

Costumes ranged from a pint-sized Batman and Robin to Jane Austen, John Betjeman, Pete Seeger, and a 19th century Blues Brother.

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