Sunday, October 28, 2012

The Opening of Pembroke Fair October 11th


Pembroke Michaelmas Fair
The opening of the Michaelmas Fair i is a great tradition in Pembroke and a real link with our past.  Its origins lie in the town’s mediaeval charters and it was formerly a hiring fair when farm workers from the area would come seek employment.  Although now a fun fair, it still takes place in Pembroke Main Street and is still opened with great ceremony by the Town Crier.  Rose Blackburn will be donning her Town Crier’s garb and reading out the ’Cry of the Fair’ as her predecessors have done for centuries, albeit now from the Waltzers on Wesley Square.  I am told this used to take place on Elm Square underneath the old Elm Tree.

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