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The Plough Tour

The Plough with two Hitch Hikers from Radio 4
(photo courtesy of Iain "The Horse")

This year the Plough Tour was 12th January 2008
It is worth noting that the sun was shining brightly this year...
The itinerary for the day was as follows

10:30am
11:00am
11:30am
12noon
12:30pm
2:00pm
3:15pm

Bless the Plough at St. Martin's Church - The Bullring, Birmingham
Dancing outside St. Martin's Chruch
Dancing at the junction of High Street and New Street
Dancing on New Street by Waterstones Bookshop
Lunch at the Wellington
Dancing in Victoria Square
Dancing at the junction of High Street and New Street

We were joined on the day by two visitore from Radio 4 who were
collecting information for a radio programme about teams.
The producer was Michelle and the presenter was
Claudia. They came and conducted some interviews and
recordings at our practice the day before the tour
and then spent the following day out with us gathering
more information for their programme.
They were treated to the full
"Jockey" experience.

BBC RADIO 4

The parked Plough in the Rain... January 2007

(photo courtesy of Iain "The Horse")

History of The Plough Tour

The Jockey Plough Tour was started when the late Roy Yarnell introduced it in to the Jockey Calendar in the early 1980s. The First Sunday after Epiphany is traditionally known as Plough Sunday by the Church and this would have been the day that ploughs would have been blessed. On the following day, Plough Monday, the plough boys would have taken their plough round their locality in hope of some treats from the farmers and land owners who they would do work for. It has been noted that if some kind of treat was not forthcoming then the plough would have been taken across the garden of that ungenerous person.

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