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A Craven diary: When Ermysted's gruelling annual cross country race meant half-day closing in Skipton


OVE Tuesday may well have slipped by without there being hardly a whimper this year, but exactly 100 years ago on ‘pancake day’ there was a land-mark local sporting occasion.
Skipton’s Mr Sport, Roger Ingham - himself a one time winner of the annual race - tells me it was the last time that the historic Ermysted’s Grammar School cross-country race - a notable event in those distant days – would finish in Skipton High Street.
“Ever mounting traffic from 1922 and since, thus prompted the organisers, for numerable decades thereafter, to finish the races on the “Top” behind the school and which itself appears, the last time I was up there, to not be once grand ‘mini Lord’s’ that it once was. ....

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