Vintage fashion, retro music festival, hundreds of classic cars, all in one fabulous FREE family day out!

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Gloucester Goes Retro is returning for its 10th anniversary on Saturday 23rd August 2025!

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One of the highlights of the city’s vibrant festival calendar, Gloucester Goes Retro features over 500 classic vehicles filling the historic Gate Streets and Gloucester Docks. You will find famous car brands from yesteryear including Aston Martin, Jensen, Bentley, Triumph, Morris and Alvis to name just a few. Incredible vehicles from the 1900s through the Roaring Twenties and the War Years to the gleaming chrome of the fifties, the iconic designs of the Swinging Sixties, sports cars from the eighties and an instant nostalgia hit from nineties classics.​

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Learn some moves and dance along to some great sounds; build the sandcastle of your dreams; our hilarious street performers or enjoy some fabulous food. There is lots to experience at Gloucester Goes Retro.  

   

Celebrate Retro with The Folk of Gloucester, where they will be focusing on the 1920s-40s with a day of free music, dance and a display of vintage radios.

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Your Next Move will be open 12-4pm! See an unused shop transformed to a world of Breaking culture – from the 80s to today! Breaking tasters and demos with Bboy Bounty & Bboy Victor Jay. Films, photo exhibition, interactive timeline, vinyl record station, PlayStation corner. Open for all ages – come and dance, share your memories or simply enjoy the music and energy of Breaking!

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