A summer festival celebrating the community and environment marked the end of a week-long line up of events with a weekend finale.

On May 19 and 20, the Rickmansworth Canal Festival celebrated its 25th anniversary and the end of Ricky Week. 

The festival, which is the highlight of the town’s annual calendar, had a top attraction of more than 100 individually crafted canal boats from across the country, moored up along the towpath. Some were as many as four-deep in the water. 

Visitors also enjoyed a range of music and performances, traders, stalls and delicious foods, as well as fireworks on Saturday night. The event attracts around 20,000 people each year. 

Deputy leader of the Conservative Group, Paula Hiscocks, said: “It’s just such a wonderful event, we had perfect weather, and everyone reported having a wonderful time.

“In fact, people were actually complaining that it had to finish. To me it’s Rickmansworth’s own Glastonbury. I want to say a big thank you to the organisers.”

The Rickmansworth Festival started as a canal-based event in 1993, as part of the British Waterways “Canals 200” celebration that year.

The Festival now occupies part of the Aquadrome, the towpath between Stockers Lock and Batchworth, and the area round Batchworth Lock.