ALTON photographer Katie Hill will be indulging her passion for retro fashion next weekend with the staging of this year’s Rural Life Vintage Revival.

Following hard on the heels of the successful inaugural Revival last September, the event is back for a second year.

And the event, on September 1-2, promises to be “bigger and better” with more live music, makeovers, a vintage photo studio, food, a bar, and plenty of stalls embracing the bygone era of the 1940s and 1950s.

Held at The Rural Life Centre at Tilford, near Farnham, the event will kick-off on the evening of Friday, August 31, with an all weather, open-air screening of classic romantic comedy Some Like it Hot, starring Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon.

Music will be courtesy of The Dustbowl Sinners, The Boot Heel Playboys, Amanda Jane, Steve Conway, Ed Hopwood, The Riverboat Ramblers, Biscuits and Gravy, and The Wield Glenn Miller Band.

Paula’s Vintage Parlour will be returning to offer makeovers, and she will be running vintage hairstyle workshops throughout the weekend, while Paul Fitchett will be on hand to finish off the makeover experience by taking portraits in his photo studio.

Alongside all of this, there will be a host of stalls selling vintage miscellanea, clothes and jewellery.

Friday’s film show starts at 8.30pm and entry is £10, and there will be Saturday evening rock ‘n’ roll with music from The Roosters with tickets priced £12. Entry to the Revival event is £10 per day, but all-event tickets are available at £40.

n Katie Hill is currently exhibiting her photographic work at the Allen Gallery on Church Street, Alton. Entitled In My View, this particular body of work has been compiled over the last three-and-a-half years during several trips to the United States and Canada. The exhibition continues until September 1.

Katie is pictured at the opening of her exhibition.