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Cheltenham's annual ritual of colour and conviviality

Posted on 08/01/2006 in Gloucestershire

David Hopps in The Guardian takes a look at the long-established Cheltenham cricket festival, which has seen some remarkable matches in its long history.

But, as Hopps points out, it's no longer the domain of colonels and clergymen as it once was:

"Those long flowery dresses of officers' wives have given way to bare midriffs of nubile wine-bar girls not long out of one of the local young ladies' colleges. In early evening, too, throaty male decibels increase - belonging more to Kingsholm than this ground's Gothic chapel."

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