Nobody in Corby is certain as to exactly when the Pole Fair started or why it got its name.
Men carrying the chairman of the council, who is holding the town's charter, on a chair attached to poles at the 1902 Corby Pole FairSome say it goes back to the 13th Century, some to 1585 when Queen Elizabeth I was rescued from a bog by Corby villagers and others to the 18th Century when Charles II granted the town a charter.
This year there will not be a greasy pole to climb because the event's organisers could not get the challenge insured. Instead, a ceremonial pole will be put up.Ryan Bruce - aka RB Capone - was having lunch one day and wondered whether anybody had ever written a song about Corby "[It was] the transition from a plain, boring, life that followed the depression and the war - we were children with nothing.
"Suddenly it was carnival, people dressed in sorts of costumes, and music and parades, it became an open door."The 86-year-old says the reading of the charter had him "mesmerised". This year Ms Westwood chairs the Pole Fair committee, which has received two Heritage Lottery Fund grants worth almost £200,000.
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