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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