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From 2012 Folklife Traditions directory. Latest version of Jul-Sep dates appear in FQ every July
v List 9: SEASONAL LOCAL CELEBRATIONS,
a
LIST by DOC ROWE
v p 41
above, & left:
ABBOTS BROMLEY HORN DANCE Abbots Bromley Staffs 1st Monday after 1st Sunday after 4 Sept.
All listings © Doc Rowe except any in italics. All photos © Doc Rowe unless otherwise credited
JULY
LISTINGS UNDERLINED = see photos
Horse Fair
Seamer
Yorks July
Kilburn Feast - Mock Mayor & Mayoress Kilburn Yorks July
Rushbearing
Gt. Musgrave & Ambleside Cumbria First Saturday in July
Grand Wardmote Of Woodmen Of Arden Meridan Warks July/August
Orange Parades
various
N. Ireland 12th July
Vintners Street Sweeping to St James Garlickhythe church London 2nd Wednesday July
Holsworthy Pretty Maids
Holsworthy
Devon
2nd Wednesday in July
John Knill Ceremony
St Ives
Cornwall 25 July (every 5 yrs) 2016
Honiton Fair
Honiton
Devon
Tu. before Wed. after 19th Jul
Italian Festival
Clerkenwell
London
3rd Sunday in July
Swan Upping
The Thames
various
Usually third week in July
Doggets Coat And Badge Race London Bridge to Chelsea London Late July
AUGUST
left, and 2 photos above:
THE BURRY MAN
South Queensferry, Lothian
2nd Fri. in Aug.
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Gooseberry Contest
Egton Bridge
N. Yorks First Tuesday in August
Rose Queen Ceremony
Little Beck
N. Yorks First Tuesday in August
Feast Of St Wilfrid
Ripon
N. Yorks First Saturday in August
Knighthood Of Old Green
Southampton
Hants
1st full week in August
Rushbearing
Grasmere
Cumbria Saturday near 5th August
The Burry Man
South Queensferry
Lothian
2nd Friday in August
Burning The Bartle
West Witton
Yorks
Saturday near 24th August
Notting Hill Carnival
Notting Hill
London
Bank Holiday Sat to Mon
FOOTBALL IN THE RIVER
Bourton-on-the-Water Glos
Bank Holiday Monday
❖ Bill Pullen reports: for over 100 years, on [what is now] August Bank Holiday Monday, Bourtonon-the-Water, Glos., had “Football In The River (Windrush)” - not mass participation but organised
by Bourton Rovers Football Club (1st play 2nds or 2 mixed teams) to benefit themselves and local
charities; it is run alongside a Fete on the Green and draws huge crowds.
www.soglos.com/sport-outdoor/28383/Bourton-Football-in-the-River
Eyam Plague Sunday
Eyam
Derbys
Last Sunday in August
SEPTEMBER
St Giles Fair
Oxford
Oxford
Mon+Tue of 1st full week in Sept
Abbots Bromley Horn Dance Abbots Bromley
Staffs
Mon after 1st Sun after 4th Sept
Sheriff’s Ride
Lichfield
Staffs
Saturday nr 8th Sept.
Widecombe Fair
Widecombe
Devon
2nd Tuesday in September
Church Clipping
Painswick
Glos
Sunday nearest 19th Sept
Bluecoat March
City of London
London
21st September or near
THE LONDON Pearly Kings & Queens Society Costermongers Harvest Festival Parade Service
See photo next page [‡]
Last Sun in Sept
❖ Carole Jolly writes ~ We have two events: the first is on the last Sunday in September - this is
a very big event with over twenty Mayors from all over London and home counties, Country dancing,
maypole dancing, marching bands, donkeys and carts and many other things. It starts at Guildhall
Yard from 1.00pm, after the entertainment there is a parade down to St Mary Le Bow Church in
Cheapside for the Harvest Festival service and all produce goes to the Whitechapel Mission. The other
event is at St Paul’s Church, Covent Garden on the 2nd Sunday of October which is the 14th this year,
it starts from 10.00am when we all gather outside the church then the service starts at 11.00am,
All the produce is sent to St Martin’s homeless centre. Our website is www.pearlysociety.co.uk
Daily or weekly
Ripon Hornblower
Ceremony Of The Keys
Wayfarers Dole
Farthing Bundles
John Sayer Charity
Ripon
Tower of London
Winchester
Bow
Woodbridge
N. Yorks
Daily
London
Daily
Hants Daily
London
Rarely held
Suffolk
Every Saturday