Tour de France street decorations in Masham, Yorkshire 2014. Knitted Bunting put up in a town in North Yorkshire to mark the Tour de France has been removed due to safety fears. More than 20,000 hand-knitted miniature jerseys have been produced to decorate the route of the cycle race through the Harrogate area. In Masham, in the Yorkshire Dales, the bunting was removed on Wednesday after the county council objected. The bunting had been hung from lamp-posts but the council said the posts could bend if it got wet and heavy.
The Tour de France, the world’s largest annual sporting event, will be starting in Yorkshire as the Grand Départ 2014 races through the county on the 5th and 6th July. To celebrate, we are encouraging gardeners to paint the canvas of the county yellow by planting show-stopping displays of bedding plants and perennials along the routes and across Yorkshire to mark the historic occasion. Communities have embraced the Tour’s iconic yellow, green, white and polka-dot jerseys as well as its cycling message through everything from knitted bunting and shop window displays to art installations and flowerbeds as the region gears up for the world’s most watched annual sporting event.
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Location: Masham, Yorkshire, UK.
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