Today should be a celebration in the Yorkshire village of Hepworth in northern England. For centuries it has commemorated its role in the Great Plague of 1665-6. But this year another pandemic forced its cancellation.
The UK lockdown means large gatherings are banned. So the Hepworth Feast on the last Monday in June cannot go ahead. Steve Booth, chief organiser, says the irony is not lost on him: “A plague event cancelled because of the plague.”
“There is no record of it ever being cancelled before. Perhaps it was in the second world war. But my auntie Mary was 92 when she died two years ago and said she had been to every Hepworth Feast for 92 years. She never mentioned it being cancelled.”
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