 Some events were popular enough to last for many years as annual events to which revellers were conveyed by train, including the New Years Day picnics and Sunday School picnics (the last of which was held on 19 February 1955).The Children's Gala Day excursion, first held on 15 December 1923, was intended to be an end-of-year celebration for school students throughout the region.So successful was the first event that they were thereafter held annually in either 1 November or December, steadily becoming more popular, with around 3,500 to 4,000 attending in 1931.