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Traditional British Calendar Customs and Events. Find out more at our web site (link below)
Frampton St Blaise’s Day 2024
St Blaise is the patron saint of wool-combers, and in Frampton on Severn his feast is marked by a special event at the church, on the Sunday nearest to his festal day of February 3rd. In the past the day was celebrated with a pancake fair, and the saint was widely venerated in the area around Stroud in which the wool trade was so important. St Mary’s Church at Frampton once had a large mural of the saint on its wall, and the building, consecrated in 1315, has many interesting features. Nowadays pancakes. local apple juice and cider are served at the church at a special service which features the enormous figure of the processional giant St Blaise, who was made for the 700th anniversary of the consecration in 2015. The saint is accompanied by music and dancing with a variety of Beasts (including, of course, the "Severn Boar"). St Blaise is also venerated at other locations around the country, and because he saved the life of a boy who had a fishbone trapped in his throat, some of the other services involve a Blessing of the Throats in which candles are crossed over the supplicants neck area.
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Shaftesbury Snowdrop Lantern Parade 2023
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The annual flower festival at Shaftesbury is part of a unique project to create the UK’s first “snowdrop town”. The festival includes snowdrop walks and planting, and a range of other themed activities including the Snowdrop Lantern Parade, the main focus of the weekend.
Geddington Squirt 2022
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Boxing Day is a popular date for sport of all kinds, but as far as I know the Squirt event at Geddington is unique. It involves a huge water fight between the local Geddington Volunteer Fire Brigade and their rivals from Kettering Fire Station, in which the teams take position at either side of the river and a barrel suspended over the ford must be squirted towards their opponents on the opposi...
Up Helly Aa 2020
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Up Helly Aa is the biggest fire festival in Europe and takes place on the last Tuesday in January each year, celebrating the Viking heritage of Shetland. The event features a parade of hundreds of torch bearers and Guizer Jarl with his Squad hauling their specially built viking galley. Following the procession, the ship is ceremonially burned at the King George V Playing Field with a crowd of u...
UK Wife Carrying Race 2020
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The Wife Carrying Races at Dorking are a relatively recent addition to the calendar and have apparently spread to the UK from a long-established Scandinavian tradition -legend has it that events like this started after raiders needed to be swift on their pins to escape when stealing womenfolk from neighbouring villages. Couples race over a steep 380 metre course and the prize is beer from the l...
Throwing the Feat Stone
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The tiny church at Efenechtyd houses the Feat Stone or Maen Camp, a large rounded boulder used to demonstrate the strength of the locals who would throw the stone backwards over their heads at the village sports. Usually kept inside near the font, the stone now gets an annual outing on the afternoon of the Patronal Service at the church, when a demonstration of the sport is given in the churchy...
Parwich Oddfellows Parade 2021
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The summer celebrations at Parwich begin on Wakes Saturday, the last weekend in June, with the unique Oddfellows Procession. The Oddfellows are a national not-for-profit organisation offering friendly support to members, with branches around the country; they are non-sectarian and apolitical and support charity work, friendship and care. At Parwich there are nearly 100 very smartly dressed memb...
Penzance May Horns 2018
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Penzance is the setting for an annual revival of an ancient Cornish custom which vanished during the early years of the twentieth century: the Blowing of May Horns. Tin trumpets were the chosen instruments of the day, and the horn blowing was accompanied by whistles and processions to welcome in the May. Nowadays the customs takes place on the first Sunday evening of the new month of May and al...
Willaston World Worm Charming Championship 2018
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The World Worm Charming Championship is held on a Saturday late each June at Willaston Primary Academy in Cheshire and dates back to 1980. Where else would you get a group of people of all ages competing to extract the maximum number of worms out of a patch of soil? Three metre square plots are available from which to entice the creatures within the space of half an hour - the record is over 50...
Newent Fayre Onion Eating Contest 2018
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The Onion Fayre at Newent is the only celebration devoted to the ever useful vegetable; it has been held since the Twelfth Century but the Onion Eating competition has only been going since the mid-1990s, so you get an ancient and a recent custom in one day! There is an onion show, lots of stalls, a fairground, music and street entertainers going all day; the eating competition starts at 1 pm. ...
Mapleton Bridge Jump 2018
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The Mapleton Bridge Jump sees brave souls launching themselves from the parapet of Okeover Bridge into the chilly waters of the River Dove about 30 feet beneath; it’s a charity fundraising event which dates back well over 20 years. For other unusual British events, customs and traditions, visit www.calendarcustoms.com/
Tichborne Dole 2019
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Tichborne Dole is one of the longest established charity doles in the country, with a great legend attached to it. As Lady Mabella lay on her deathbed in the twelfth century, she requested that she should be able to leave a charitable bequest of land to provide flour for the needy locals; her husband Sir Roger said that she could have all the land that she could walk around while carrying a sin...
London Pantomime Horse Race 2017
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The London Pantomime Horse Race is a costumed fun-run around the streets of Greenwich, held each December. The 2017 race had a pop/rock icons theme, with contestants including Mick Nagger, Maredonna, Neddy Mercury, Camel Minogue, Whitney Hoofston, Noel Galloper, Filly Idol and Amy Winehorse. For other unusual British events, customs and traditions, visit www.calendarcustoms.com/
World Pie Eating Contest 2017
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The World Pie Eating Championships take place at Harry’s Bar in Wigan around the middle of December. The winner is the person who manages to eat a standard pie fastest - the pies are 12cm diameter and 3.5 cm deep, with a beef and potato filling and the current World Record stands at 23.53 seconds, achieved by Martin Appleton Clare on 12th December 2012. For other unusual British events, customs...
Bolney Apple Howling 2017
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Apple Howling is a Sussex variant of the ancient tradition of wassailing, the ritual to encourage the apple trees to produce a bumper crop. At Old Mill Farm, Bolney, a torchlight procession winds its way down the lane to the orchard; the wassailers surround the oldest tree and cake and cider are offered up before the tree is beaten with sticks to awaken it from its winter slumbers. Special wass...
Flamborough Sword Dance - Boxing Day 2016
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Flamborough Sword Dance - Boxing Day 2016
St Ives Feast Day Procession & Silver Ball Hurling
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St Ives Feast Day Procession & Silver Ball Hurling
Marshfield Paper Boys Boxing Day Mumming Play 2015
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Marshfield Paper Boys Boxing Day Mumming Play 2015
The Ashen Faggot (Lutrell Arms, Dunster) 2015.
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The Ashen Faggot (Lutrell Arms, Dunster) 2015.
Looks like a blast
Only just found out about this today, having grown up in Derby and recently moved back here in 22', I have never heard of Old Tup, or 'The Derby Tup' before. I bet this goes back further than the 1800s. A lot of these folk traditions predate Christianity, and go back to Pagan times. It's great to see them still alive in the 21st century!. Surely this is also why Derby city and our Derby County Football Club have a ram mascot?.
4 years later the Rose Cottage Inn would close (as a pub)
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Wow! I feel so blessed to see a beautiful tradition, how wonderful you're all there and putting it up for us to see! God Bless you all.
Good squirt this year :D
Wow 2million people 😮
Holy shit it does look like a souped up ice cream van
Sports in the fliid season is fun
are those edible?
Yes I believe they are -but maybe not after they’ve been thrown!
Please don’t scroggle me 😭
This is world without football
So true
Gave me a hearty laugh.
I lived in Frodsham never saw any of them
u w0t
I might have guessed the finishing line would be a pub! XD XD
And the starting place as well!!
Passed through Willaston on the way to / from the Battle of Nantwich re-enactment.
What an incredible voice.
Fascinating ❤
Anyone spotted James Acaster yet?
We were out with the Mari Lwyd in Abergavenny on Saturday, the first time since the pandemic to my knowledge. But envied those in Chepstow who meet the English wassailers on the bridge over the Wye, exciting merger of British customs.
Well ugly bunch
splice the mainbrace
I love these alternative Christmas carols. I know the Holly and the Ivy tune. Prefer it to the usual one.
I'm an ex fisherman from Eyemouth. My sister Lauren was Herring queen. Peace people
nice
Kinda disappointing that the world record was 569 and the winner for 2018 got just 11! Doesn't seem like very many to me - I'm sure I could find more in my garden in 2 minutes!
I believe the drought conditions that year made the total so low rather than lack of skill by the competitors 😉
My family came 2nd this year in plot 39. We only got 9 lol. The conditions were incredibly dry for the weeks running up to the competition so that's why literally no one got worms, as they'd all burrowed themselves deep underground
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That’s my school
Called 'em dirt snakes. Now I'm talking about big old, fat earthworms, not the skinny little garden variety - those are for fishing. We always used a 6-volt car battery hooked up to two prods poked into the ground. Gather 'em up, slit 'em in half end-to-end & wash out the dirt, fry 'em in bacon grease or lard ... tasty & nutritious ... made a great BLT - ptf
This is amazing!
Never give up your traditions.
Loved this …. English excellence ! Why do I think that some public health twat is going to do a “risk assessment” and shut down the race
What's the banner about and what's it mean with the walking sticks? Looking to learn!
Hi, the banners are for the local branch of Oddfellows (a bit like the way that Trade Union branches and Masonic lodges have their own banners) and I think the staves are to show the members' status as fully fledged members of the organisation (but I'm not a member myself so don't quote me on that!). Hope that helps!
@@averilshepherd3662 Thanks!
Who do I contact to ask for permission to use this video for a Japanese national TV show?
That sucks
WHERE IS GOD NOW
Top class
Loved it. R.
Alex?
Caitlin Doughty brought me here.
2 questions I'd like answered, why do they have a strange thing around their head and why this choice of music?
The strange things is called braffin - it's a horse-collar and part of the equipment for harnessing a horse to a cart- and gurning competitions traditionally take place inside them and have done for many many years so it's a long tradition but I'm not sure how it started. And as far as I remember, each contestant chooses their own signature tune (a bit like the way boxers do when they enter the ring) but I'm not sure why they picked the songs they chose.. Hope that helps :)
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Absolutely fantastic. Long may it continue.
This when all the men and boys unleash their inner caveman
MDMA got me feeling like
Great to see this interesting old customs survive
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this is my favorite video of all time
BISHOP BALL WHAT ABOUT THE VICTIMS NEIL TODD COMMITTED SUICIDE YOU OBVIOUSLY DO NOT CARE ABOUT HIM