The Granny Smith Festival is an annual festival held in Eastwood, New South Wales, a suburb of Sydney, Australia. It began in 1985 and is now the largest annual event of its type in Lower Northern Sydney (and northern Sydney). The festival is held in and around Eastwood Oval and is usually in October of each year to commemorate 19th-century pioneer Maria Ann 'Granny' Smith, credited with producing the "Granny Smith apple" and celebrated for providing the Ryde-Hunters Hill area with great prosperity. The festival begins at 9:00am and concludes at 8:00pm
The highlights are the Grand Parade down Rowe Street and the fireworks display that every year lights-up the skies above Eastwood. There are also stalls, community events, live entertainment, rides and lots of fanfare. It is a festival tradition that the New South Wales Mounted Police lead the Grand Parade.
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