Canterbury Cricket Week ceremonies. As of 2017, there have been 166 Canterbury Cricket Weeks held. The week continued through the Second World War with cricket being held on the ground each season. The politician and journalist Bill Deedes wrote in 2000: "while the Second World War was on, I consoled myself by thinking that Canterbury Cricket Week, founded in 1842 with its tents and famous lime tree, unchanging in a changing world, was the sort of thing I was in business to preserve." Traditionally Canterbury Cricket Week has included a Ladies day with prizes being awarded for the best hat on the day.
I Wish I Was a Mole in the Ground stay away from the train line/ She said that all the railroad men/ Just drink up your blood like wine" on his song "Stuck Inside of Mobile With the Memphis Blues Again" on the album "Blonde on Blonde", recorded in 1966. The song is mentioned by Salman Rushdie's character Ormus in his work, "The Ground Beneath Her Feet". In his book "", the author Greil Marcus writes of Lunsford's recording of the song: Now what the singer wants is obvious, and almost impossible to comprehend. He wants to be delivered from his life and to be changed into a creature