Concert in memory of local icons
A memorial concert to remember four local legends from one Island village will take place in St John's tonight.
Organised by the Cronk y Voddy Ploughing Society, the event, at St John's Methodist Hall, will be compered by Geoff Corkish MBE and raise funds for Hospice.
The concert will remember the erstwhile Chair of the Cronk y Voddy Ploughing Society and 'King' of Cronk y Voddy, Donald Cannan, who was a champion cyclist in his time.
Tributes will be paid to to former commissioner and secretary of the society, Roy Kennaugh, who died suddenly last year after years of documenting rural life around the village.
Little Londoner Mollie Caine will be remembered.
But Lord Randolph Quirk is arguably Cronk y Voddy's most famous old boy.
Born in 1920, he went on to be a respected linguist and academic, Professor of English Language and Literature at University College London and a cross-bencher in the House of Lords.
Admission to the concert is £5 including supper, is open to all, and gets underway at 7pm.
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