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Content Published August 4, 2017

Ickwell May Day 2015

? Si Barber 07739 472 922 Ickwell May Day celebration 2015. Image shows garland bearers.

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Content Published August 4, 2017

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An English flag flying backwards in a layby in Hampshire, UK.

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Content Published August 4, 2017

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? Si Barber 07739 472 922 St George's Day celebrations, March, Cambridgeshire

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Content Published August 4, 2017

Ickwell May Day 2015

? Si Barber 07739 472 922 Ickwell May Day celebration 2015. Image shows garland bearers.

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Content Published August 4, 2017

Ickwell May Day 2015

? Si Barber 07739 472 922 Ickwell May Day celebration 2015

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Content Published August 4, 2017

Ickwell May Day 2015

? Si Barber 07739 472 922 Ickwell May Day celebration 2015

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Content Published August 4, 2017

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?Si Barber Moral rights asserted. St George's Day mural by Lee Stroble on the side of the Black Horse pub in Thetford, Norfolk,UK.

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Content Published August 4, 2017

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©Si Barber Moral rights asserted. Amorris dancer with the emblem of the Sutton Hoo helmet on her costume

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Content Published August 4, 2017

Strawbear Festival 2017.

©Si Barber Moral rights asserted. Molly dancers at the Strawbear Festival 2017.

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Content Published August 4, 2017

Strawbear Festival 2017.

©Si Barber Moral rights asserted. Molly dancers at the Strawbear Festival 2017.

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Content Published August 4, 2017

Strawbear Festival 2017.

©Si Barber Moral rights asserted. Molly dancers at the Strawbear Festival 2017.

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Content Published August 4, 2017

Strawbear Festival 2017.

©Si Barber Moral rights asserted. Molly dancers at the Strawbear Festival 2017.

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Content Published May 4, 2017

Mendlesham May Queen

Newly crowned Mendlesham May Queen Ella Kendall with princesses parading around the village accompanied by clerics from St Mary the Virgin Church, Suffolk, UK

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Content Published May 4, 2017

Mendlesham May Queen

Newly crowned Mendlesham May Queen Ella Kendall with princesses parading around the village accompanied by clerics from St Mary the Virgin Church, Suffolk, UK

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Content Published May 4, 2017

Mendlesham May Queen

Newly crowned Mendlesham May Queen Ella Kendall with princesses parading around the village accompanied by clerics from St Mary the Virgin Church, Suffolk, UK

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Content Published May 4, 2017

Mendlesham May Queen

Newly crowned Mendlesham May Queen Ella Kendall with princesses parading around the village accompanied by clerics from St Mary the Virgin Church, Suffolk, UK

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Mendlesham May Queen, Ella Kendall with Princesses being crowned by Rev Philip Gray at St Mary the Virgin church, Suffolk,UK.

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Content Published May 4, 2017

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Mendlesham May Queen, Ella Kendall with Princesses being crowned by Rev Philip Gray at St Mary the Virgin church, Suffolk,UK.

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Content Published April 20, 2017

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A tracksuit top with the word England on sale at a market stall.

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Content Published January 19, 2017

Whittlesey Straw Bear, Cambridgeshire. Originally held on the first Monday in January, the event has celebrated the beginning of the agricultural year since the Middle Ages. Farm labourers, unemployed in the winter months would black up their faces to prevent identification and perform dances in the town in return for money or food.

Latterly considered begging and criminalised before making a comeback in the 1980s over the weekend of Epiphanytide, the StrawBear would inevitably involve a number of street fights and the occasional good natured stabbing. In the 2000s as property prices rose aspirational people who wanted to live in Cambridge but couldn't afford city prices came to Whittlesey and occupied the new builds. They disapproved of the application of blackface and eventually achieved in getting it banned. These were the same well intentioned, but naïve people who supported the smoking ban which did so damage to the culture of England, closing pubs like the Bricklayers Arms.

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