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Listings: Seasonal Local Celebrations, a list by Doc Rowe
above, & below left: ABBOTS BROMLEY HORN DANCE Abbots Bromley Staffs 1st Monday after 1st Sunday after 4 Sept.
JULY
Horse Fair Seamer Yorks Kilburn Feast - Mock Mayor & Mayoress Kilburn Yorks Rushbearing Gt. Musgrave & Ambleside Cumbria Grand Wardmote Of Woodmen Of Arden Meridan Warks Orange Parades various N. Ireland Vintners Street Sweeping to St James Garlickhythe church London Holsworthy Pretty Maids Holsworthy Devon John Knill Ceremony St Ives Cornwall Honiton Fair Honiton Devon Italian Festival Clerkenwell London Swan Upping The Thames various Doggets Coat And Badge Race London Bridge to Chelsea London
AUGUST
§ = see photo Gooseberry Contest Rose Queen Ceremony PEARLY KINGS & QUEENS © Carole Jolly Feast Of St Wilfrid Carole is a Freeman of the City of London and Pearly Knighthood Of Old Green Queen of Crystal Palace. Rushbearing The Burry Man § Burning The Bartle Notting Hill Carnival Eyam Plague Sunday
SEPTEMBER St Giles Fair Abbots Bromley Horn Dance § Sheriff’s Ride Widecombe Fair Church Clipping Bluecoat March
OCTOBER
left, and 2 photos above: THE BURRY MAN South Queensferry, Lothian 2nd Fri. in Aug.
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Nottingham Goose Fair Billingsgate Harvest Festival Pearlies Harvest Festival § Bellringers’ Feast Goozey Vair Court Leet Bampton Pony Fair Punkie Night Quit Rents Ceremony Antrobus Soulcakers Trick Or Treat
July July First Saturday in July July/August 12th July 2nd Wednesday July 2nd Wednesday in July 25th July (every 5th year) Tu. before Wed. after 19th Jul 3rd Sunday in July Usually third week in July Late July
Egton Bridge Little Beck Ripon Southampton Grasmere South Queensferry West Witton Notting Hill Eyam
N. Yorks N. Yorks N. Yorks Hants Cumbria Lothian Yorks London Derbys
First Tuesday in August First Tuesday in August First Saturday in August 1st full week in August Saturday near 5th August 2nd Friday in August Saturday near 24th August Bank Holiday Sat to Mon Last Sunday in August
Oxford Abbots Bromley Lichfield Widecombe Painswick City of London
Oxford Staffs Staffs Devon Glos London
Mon+Tue of 1st full week in Sept Mon after 1st Sun after 4th Sept Saturday nr 8th Sept. 2nd Tuesday in September Sunday nearest 19th Sept 21st September or near
Nottingham Billingsgate St Martins in the Field Twyford (nr Winchester) Tavistock Clifton, York Bampton Hinton St George Royal Courts of Justice Antrobus various
Notts London London Hants Devon N. York Exmoor Somerset London Cheshire UK
Last 3 days of 1st wk in Oct 1st Sunday in October 1st Sunday in October 7th October 2nd Wednesday in Oct October Last Thursday in October Last Thursday in October Late October 31st October and on 31st October
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