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.
Dry tree said that Muslims called this tree "Kurrutherek" or "Sirpe". This last word is close to the Turco-Persian word meaning "cyperus". The Spanish ambassador Clavijo said that the tree was in Tabriz. Though the story is a legend, solitary trees are not. The Ténéré tree was a famous tree in the West-African state of Niger, serving both as a landmark and a national monument, but knocked down by a drunken truck driver in 1973. The nearest tree to it was 400 km away. Dry tree The Dry tree (or Solitary tree) is a legendary tree. Because of its ability to battle