A crowd had gathered in Saltash Fore street at 2pm together with the Mayor and Mayoress, Richard and Sarah Bickford, and their Deputies, Julia Pegg and her Consort Geoff Peggs, and Town Clerk Sinead Burrows.
After reading the proclamation, Brian Whipps invited a young person from the crowd, Neli Hunt, aged 8, of Burraton School, to read the proclamation to the crowd, so that she would remember the day in years to come.