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v List 9: SEASONAL LOCAL CELEBRATIONS, a LIST by DOC ROWE v p 38 bi-lingual Entries are welcome From 2012 Folklife Traditions directory. Latest version of Jan-Mar dates appear in FQ every January Last Tue in Jan UP-HELLY-AA GOATHLAND PLOUGH STOTS 1st Sat after Plough Mon UP-HELLY-AA Last Tue in Jan All listings © Doc Rowe except any in italics. All photos © Doc Rowe unless otherwise credited LISTINGS UNDERLINED = see photos JANUARY CHINESE NEW YEAR MARI LWYD February from before Christmas to New Year’s Day MARI LWYD different places - different days S.E. Wales Wassailing Combe in Teignhead Wassailing Churchstanton Darkey Day Padstow Haxey Hood Game Haxey Bodmin Wassailers Bodmin Twelfth Night Revels Southwark GOATHLAND PLOUGH STOTS Goathland STRAW BEAR DAY Whittlesea Hen Galan [old New Year], calennig [New Yr gifts] Cwm Apple Tree Wassail Whimple Wassailing Carhampton UP-HELLY-AA Lerwick before Christmas to New Year’s Day Devon January Somerset January Cornwall 1st January Lincs 6th January Cornwall 6th January London near 6th January North Yorks 1st Sat after Plough Mon Cambs Sat nr 6 Jan Gwaun Pembs 13th January [Eds] Devon 17th January Somerset 17th January Shetland Last Tue in Jan FEBRUARY, MARCH, including Shrove Tuesday (12 Feb 2013), Ash Wed. (day after) The Doc Rowe Collection Support Group www.docrowe.org.uk has been set up to support the Archive of Doc’s unique collection. Carlows Charity Woodbridge Suffolk 2nd February Cradle Rocking Blidworth Notts Sunday near 2nd February Chinese New Year various UK February Quit Rents Ceremony Royal Courts of Justice London February Trial Of Pyx Goldsmiths Hall London February (and May) Red Feather Day: Sir John Cass Service Aldgate London Friday near 20th February Westminster Greaze Westminster School London Shrove Tuesday Sedgefield Ball Game Sedgefield Co. Durham Shrove Tuesday Football Alnwick Northumberland Shrove Tuesday Football Atherstone Warks Shrove Tuesday Ashbourne Royal Football Ashbourne Derbys Shrove Tuesday and Wednesday Hurling the Silver Ball St Columb Major Cornwall Shrove Tuesday and Saturday following ❖ Unique in being a Shrovetide football where the ball is hurled, not thrown. Hundreds of hurlers turn up, the two teams being the Townsmen and the Countrymen. Goals are about two miles apart, but a goal can also be scored by being carried over the parish boundary. There is an afternoon and an evening game. Youngsters get ‘silver cocoa’ and the silver ball goes round the pubs being submerged in beer to provide ‘silver beer’. Based on information from ® Chris Ridley. Ref: Hurling at St Columb, Ivan Rabey (Lodenek Press, Padstow: 1972). Cakes And Ale Ceremony St Pauls London Ash Wednesday Dame Elizabeth Marvyn Charity Ufton Nervet Berks Mid Lent ST DAVID’S DAY (celebrations, school events) Wales 1st March (Eds) Kiplingcotes Derby Market Weighton Yorks Third Thursday in March Tichborne Dole Tichborne Hants 25th March All listings & photos © Doc Rowe, unless stated otherwise. We are very grateful to Doc, who has generously provided detailed listings, with photos. All from Doc except in italics; additional info from ® Chris Ridley, ® Bill Pullen, Tom & Barbara Brown, Audrey Smith, Gary Heywood-Everett and ® the Editors. If you’re involved with such events, more entries welcome (and further details and/or contact details), subject to consent of the event’s organisers, please - some may not want publicity. For links to websites, see Doc’s website: www.docrowe.org.uk Detailed reports - and photos - are welcomed for our Folklife Traditions quarterly; FT webpage is www.traditions.folklife-west.org.uk Each FT will include a list for that quarter, updated as appropriate. Dates believed to be correct, but some weekday dates seem to be changing towards weekends.