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Sanding - a #Cheshire tradition, unique to #Knutsford. Coloured sand is used to create elaborate designs & messages on pavements & roads on @RoyalMayDay & for weddings.
knutsford-royal-mayday.co.uk
#CheshireDialect
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Sanding - a #Cheshire tradition, unique to #Knutsford. Coloured sand is used to create elaborate designs & messages on pavements & roads on @RoyalMayDay & for weddings.
knutsford-royal-mayday.co.uk
#CheshireDialect
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Legend has it that King Canute, while travelling north to fight the Scots, had to cross the ford in this #Cheshire town on foot. After he had crossed, he stopped to take off his shoes and shake the sand out of them.
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It is said that there was a wedding party passing, so King Canute wished the couple as many children as grains of sand he’d shaken from his shoes.
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