Canterbury 2010
Canterbury started as an Iron Age settlement. It was an important centre for the local Celtic tribe, the Cantiaci in the first century AD. In 43 AD the Romans invaded Britain. Late in the 1st century they took over the Celtic settlement and rebuilt it. The Romans called the new town Durovernum Cantiacorum.
The Canterbury Tales is a collection of stories written in Middle-English by Geoffrey Chaucer at the end of the 14th century. The tales are told as part of a story-telling contest by a group of pilgrims as they travel together on a journey from Southwark to the shrine of Saint Thomas Becket at Canterbury Cathedral.
In the year 2010, the Phoenix pilgrims travel together on a journey from Cranford to Canterbury to play cricket and on the way tell stories of their wonderous disco dancing moves, magnificent womely quests, exceptional drinking contests & marvellous acts of cricket. The Cranford Tales are now more notorious than those written by Chaucer.
More after the tour has come to pass ........................