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.
Black Horse and the Cherry Tree Black Horse and the Cherry Tree "Black Horse and the Cherry Tree" (commonly written with an ampersand) is a song by Scottish singer-songwriter KT Tunstall and is featured on her debut album, "Eye to the Telescope". It was released on 21 February 2005 as the lead single from the album, charting at No. 28 in the UK Singles Chart (see 2005 in British music). It is one of many songs that reuses the famous Bo Diddley beat from the influential 1955 song of his own name. The song is a playable track in the music video games "Band Hero" and