Redcar High
Street was packed today when Yorkshire Day fell on Market Day but this resulted
in a bumper turnout for the annual reading of the Yorkshire Declaration of
Integrity.
Actor/writer
Chris Foote Wood appeared as Captain Cook to lead the proceedings. He was
supported by Redcar’s John Curr as mighty Viking Sicga Draugluin who read the
Declaration in Old Norse, one of the four languages used in the area since the
earliest known written reference to the Ridings of York in the Anglo Saxon Chronicles
of 876. The others are Latin Old English and Modern English.
Mr Foote
Wood read the Declaration in modern English to loud cheers from the assembled
crowd.
The Mayor of Redcar and Cleveland, Councillor Carole Simms,
attended the ceremony and said “Yorkshire Day can be celebrated
in any way you see fit. You don’t have to be Yorkshire born to appreciate the
county and to join in.”
As a tribute to the Tour de
France in Yorkshire local Sustran Ranger
Coordinator Keith
Duncan rode in from Saltburn carrying the Yorkshire flag along with Phil Chisholm
of Redcar. Steven Abbott and his son Matthew Abbott (17) rode in from
Grangetown.
Ridings Society members with the
aid of ladies from Redcar Ladies Lifeboat Guild raised £203.70 for Redcar
Lifeboat from the sales of white roses. The Ridings Society raised £230.40 for
its campaign fund from the tombola and £32 was raised for Yorkshire Air
Ambulance from a cake raffle. Mrs Kelly Seaman (left) and Councillor Irene Curr
are pictured with the locally made cakes which were donated.
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