Banbury visit

We went to Banbury yesterday so get the kids some of the school clothers. There is a mall in the center of the city. It's nice but nothing like the malls we think of back in the states.

Banbury is an old market town. It has an interesting history dating back to the Saxon times.

A nursery rhyme, 'Ride a Cock Horse', has made Banbury one of the best-known towns in England. It has been suggested that the 'Fine Lady' of the nursery rhyme may have been Lady Godiva or Elizabeth I. More likely it was a local girl who rode in a May Day procession. The original cross was pulled down at the end of the 16th century. The present cross was erected in 1859 to celebrate the wedding of the then Princess Royal to Prince Frederick of Prussia.

"Ride a cock horse to Banbury Cross,
To see a fine ladyupon a white horse,
With rings on her fingers and bells on her toes,
She shall have music where-ever she goes"