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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. We are very grateful to Doc for generously providing such detailed listings & photos. The Doc Rowe Collection Support Group has been set up to support the Archive of Doc’s unique collection. See: www.docrowe.org.uk 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