The Mayor and Council in procession to open the 2003 Michaelmas Fair in the streets of St Ives

The Mayor and Councillors of St Ives process from the Town Hall in Market Hill through the streets of St Ives as has occasioned annually for the last 800 years since the town was granted a Royal Charter by King John to hold a street fair at Michaelmas.

The Mayor, Councillor Kevin Reynolds is escorted by the Mace Bearer, Mr John Smoothy, and followed by the Town Clerk, Mr George Cooper and the Mayors Chaplin, Farther Paul Maddison and then the company of the Town Councillors

Down Crown Street, St Ives

and into the Broadway

The destination being "The Dodgems"

There is a reason for this! but more of that later...NEXT