Tribute to Derek Wolfe, Marlborough’s late town clerk, is to be paid at Sunday’s communities market in the High Street when stallholders and visitors will be asked to stand for a minute’s silence.
As it is to be a Harvest Festival Market, the event will take place following the civic harvest festival service at St Mary’s, which will be attended by Marlborough’s Mayor, Edwina Fogg, and town councillors.
At the close of the 10am service, the mayor and councillors, joined by the Rector, Canon Andrew Studdert-Kennedy, and Mr Wolfe’s widow, Lynette, will walk in procession to the High Street. There the Town Crier will ring in the minute’s silence, to be be followed by a blessing on the market and all those involved.
“Derek was a director of the communities market and someone who was incredible supportive of the whole ethos of what we are doing,” market organiser Ellie Gill told Marlborough News Online.
“He was a great help to us and his presence is going to be sadly missed.”
The market will start earlier than the normal 11am start because the Mop Fair will have been operating in the High Street the night before.
Stallholders in the covered town hall section are expected to be operating by 8am.
