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self_catering_cottage_ludlow_ukMay Fair self_catering_cottage_ludlow_uk self catering cottage Ludlow UK, Ludlow town, May Fair, town centre market, the river Teme, the river Corve, Ludlow town centre, festival, fair, tradition, ludow markets, castle, leisure, town centre, fun fair, walk, visit, holiday cottages, self catering cottage Ludlow UK, You may find the text below interesting to read if you are planning to stay in our holiday cottages.  The May Fair in Ludlow town centre is one of the oldest and most enduring popular events. In the 12th and 13th centuries the parish church was dedicated not only to St. Laurence, but also to St. Phillip and St. James, and it was for these two later mentioned saints that a festival was dedicated for a few days around the 1st of May. By way of a celebration of this event a commercial fair was held by the people of the day, a reasonable enough excuse, and this fair successfully became a tradition. There were many annual commercial fairs held in those days, which with growing demand gradually became fortnightly and even weekly markets. The May fairs however, because of their date significance with earlier pagan times, remained as annual events, only changing with the times from purely commercial events, to include livestock sales and the hiring of servants. In later centuries the nature of these fairs changed to our present day pleasure fairs, which were still held for the 4 or 5 days around the 1st May, and in the same place, in the town centre market place out side the castle. So as with the River Teme and the River Corve pure commerce has naturally evolved to the leisure and pleasure industries. For those 4 days of the May Fair, the town centre is unrecognizably transformed to the delight of the young, and the young at heart. A traditional fun fair arrives into the town centre of the town bringing thrills in the shape of rides and booths, so there is candy floss, trophies, dreams and pleasant memories to take away with you if you a lucky enough to have been there. The young people armed with saved up pocket money have the time of their lives, sometimes meeting their lifetime partners. It used to be said if you stood on a Ludlow Town street corner in the middle of the fair for a while nearly everyone you knew would walk by, some you had not seen for years, as so many people come back home to visit for the May Fair. Local people are very complacent but you should never suggest that they give up this fair as they hold it dearly at heart. Parents and grandparents bring their young and teenagers bring themselves, it's a tradition. The lads in their hundreds to Ludlow come in for the fair, |
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