Hello all. Don’t forget this Sunday, 4th May, the annual french Le Marche De Fromage Et Onion (Cheese And Onion Market) will be back in town. This is your chance to buy expensive french cheeses and onions directly from stall-holders who will only accept payment in euros and who can be rude to customers in two languages. And because Monday is MayDay we’ve decided to coincide the bank holiday celebrations and make the market day a two day event. This will mean our wonderful French guests staying overnight at the local campsite in ex-army tents supplied by the brownies. So please give that part of town a wide berth after 9pm on Sunday.
As with previous years alcohol won’t be offered for sale due to past drunken incidents. Nor will we tolerate urinating in the street, except at the repainted pop-up urinals outside the undertakers.
The Emmental Fromagiers are due set off from from Town Hall steps at 10am on Sunday, and if they’re sober again on Monday, parade along Floyd Street past the ongoing fracking into the Square and then declare the market open.
Weather permitting there will be events for the whole family on both days, including morris dancing by The Beckworth Bothamers, a kite display by local celebrity Noel Edmunds and of course on Monday afternoon the crowning of Beckworth’s Miss Garlic 2014. Not to be missed will be the “now all electric” steam-driven carrousel and dodgems, a coconut shy, Flintlock Farm’s Mobile Petting Zoo and we are pleased to welcome back, after a short spell in prison, Derek Shipston’s (non-violent PC) Punch & Judy show. Once again the Beckworth & Crewbury Historical Re-enactors will be blowing us all away, this year they plan to stage The Life Of Joan Of Arc at The Sports Field (if they can get permission from health & safety officials).
Bonsour, Mayor Gary Grimsby
(Above) Monsieur Marcel Sausage pictured pre-fist fight at last year’s market
