As I was going to
St Ives
I met a man with seven wives.
Each wife had seven sacks,
Each sack had seven cats,
Each cat had seven kits;
Kits, cats, sacks and wives -
How many were going to St Ives?
This famous
riddle relates to the pleasant English market town of St Ives
on the River Great Ouse, 15 miles from Cambridge.
St Ives Town Centre
is the focus of the town's commercial, leisure and cultural
activities and the maintenance and improvement of the area is
seen as vital in securing the health and prosperity of the Town
itself.
The St Ives
Town Initiative
- an association of public, voluntary and private sector organisations
- has an important role to play in the planning and the managing
of the Town Centre.
some
of the text above reproduced, by permission, from Philip
Grosset's web site
