We were talking with Knaresborough’s Town Crier (Roger Hewitt, who used to work with Peter G.) when a local man came up to suggest three things for inclusion in the Crier’s next proclamation.
First, he informed the TC that it was ANZAC Day.
Secondly, he said it was the anniversary of Oliver Cromwell’s birth – the person responsible for the destruction of Knaresborough castle (lying just a stone’s throw away from the Market Cross where we were standing).
Knaresborough castle
And third – this is way random – he said that it was also Monty Panesar’s 36th birthday!!
Much to his credit, and reading from the scroll removed with ceremony from his tipstaff, the Town Crier began his next proclamation with reference to ANZAC Day. Good on him – and the local man who was so aware.
