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Content Published January 23, 2020

Whittlesey Straw Bear Festival

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Molly dancers at the Straw Bear festival, Whittlesea, Cambs. The festival is a revival of a centuries old tradition when it is thought unemployed agricultural labourers dressed up in rags and came into the villages to entertain the population for money. Forbidden by law in the early 20th Century, the highlight of the event is when the straw 'bear' who is paraded through the town by his keeper and then set on fire in a nearby field. The modern event attracts Morris and Molly dancer from across the county.

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Content Published January 23, 2020

Whittlesey Straw Bear Festival

©Si Barber. MOral rights asserted.

Molly dancers at the Straw Bear festival, Whittlesea, Cambs. The festival is a revival of a centuries old tradition when it is thought unemployed agricultural labourers dressed up in rags and came into the villages to entertain the population for money. Forbidden by law in the early 20th Century, the highlight of the event is when the straw 'bear' who is paraded through the town by his keeper and then set on fire in a nearby field. The modern event attracts Morris and Molly dancer from across the county.

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Content Published January 23, 2020

Whittlesey Straw Bear Festival

©Si Barber. MOral rights asserted.

Molly dancers at the Straw Bear festival, Whittlesea, Cambs. The festival is a revival of a centuries old tradition when it is thought unemployed agricultural labourers dressed up in rags and came into the villages to entertain the population for money. Forbidden by law in the early 20th Century, the highlight of the event is when the straw 'bear' who is paraded through the town by his keeper and then set on fire in a nearby field. The modern event attracts Morris and Molly dancer from across the county.

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Content Published January 23, 2020

Whittlesey Straw Bear Festival

©Si Barber. MOral rights asserted.

Molly dancers at the Straw Bear festival, Whittlesea, Cambs. The festival is a revival of a centuries old tradition when it is thought unemployed agricultural labourers dressed up in rags and came into the villages to entertain the population for money. Forbidden by law in the early 20th Century, the highlight of the event is when the straw 'bear' who is paraded through the town by his keeper and then set on fire in a nearby field. The modern event attracts Morris and Molly dancer from across the county.

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Content Published January 23, 2020

Whittlesey Straw Bear Festival

©Si Barber. MOral rights asserted.

Molly dancers at the Straw Bear festival, Whittlesea, Cambs. The festival is a revival of a centuries old tradition when it is thought unemployed agricultural labourers dressed up in rags and came into the villages to entertain the population for money. Forbidden by law in the early 20th Century, the highlight of the event is when the straw 'bear' who is paraded through the town by his keeper and then set on fire in a nearby field. The modern event attracts Morris and Molly dancer from across the county.

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Content Published January 23, 2020

Whittlesey Straw Bear Festival

©Si Barber. MOral rights asserted.

Molly dancers at the Straw Bear festival, Whittlesea, Cambs. The festival is a revival of a centuries old tradition when it is thought unemployed agricultural labourers dressed up in rags and came into the villages to entertain the population for money. Forbidden by law in the early 20th Century, the highlight of the event is when the straw 'bear' who is paraded through the town by his keeper and then set on fire in a nearby field. The modern event attracts Morris and Molly dancer from across the county.

2020 agricultural alms barber bear begin beginning black blacking blacking up blacked black strange wierd weird odd oddity metaphor england english uk great britain festivities blackface rite rites costume dress dressing up boy cambridgeshire cambs dance dancers dancing disguise disguised face farm farming festival molly molly morris folk dancers dancing dance tradition clog custom traditional whittlesea whittlsie whittlesey straw bear strawbear festival celebration pagan molly morris folk dancers dancing dance tradition clog custom traditional whittlesea whittlsie whittlesey straw bear strawbear festival celebration pagan ritual pagan morris plough si staw straw strawbear tradition traditional up whittlesey www.sibarber.co.uk year

Content Published January 23, 2020

Whittlesey Straw Bear Festival

©Si Barber. MOral rights asserted.

Molly dancers at the Straw Bear festival, Whittlesea, Cambs. The festival is a revival of a centuries old tradition when it is thought unemployed agricultural labourers dressed up in rags and came into the villages to entertain the population for money. Forbidden by law in the early 20th Century, the highlight of the event is when the straw 'bear' who is paraded through the town by his keeper and then set on fire in a nearby field. The modern event attracts Morris and Molly dancer from across the county.

2020 agricultural alms barber bear begin beginning black blacking boy cambridgeshire cambs dance dancers dancing disguise disguised face farm farming festival molly molly morris folk dancers dancing dance tradition clog custom traditional whittlesea whittlsie whittlesey straw bear strawbear festival celebration pagan molly morris folk dancers dancing dance tradition clog custom traditional whittlesea whittlsie whittlesey straw bear strawbear festival celebration pagan ritual pagan morris plough si staw straw strawbear tradition traditional up whittlesey www.sibarber.co.uk year

Content Published January 23, 2020

Whittlesey Straw Bear Festival

©Si Barber. MOral rights asserted.

Molly dancers at the Straw Bear festival, Whittlesea, Cambs. The festival is a revival of a centuries old tradition when it is thought unemployed agricultural labourers dressed up in rags and came into the villages to entertain the population for money. Forbidden by law in the early 20th Century, the highlight of the event is when the straw 'bear' who is paraded through the town by his keeper and then set on fire in a nearby field. The modern event attracts Morris and Molly dancer from across the county.

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Content Published May 31, 2019

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Visitors to Hilgay Agricultural Auction, Norfolk, 2019

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Content Published May 31, 2019

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Visitors to Hilgay Agricultural Auction, Norfolk, 2019

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Content Published May 31, 2019

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Visitors to Hilgay Agricultural Auction, Norfolk, 2019

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Content Published June 4, 2018

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Children petting a sheep at an auction in Swaffham, Norfolk

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Content Published May 23, 2018

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Egg laying ostriches at Oslinc, White House Farm, Lincolnshire.

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Content Published May 23, 2018

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Egg laying ostriches at Oslinc, White House Farm, Lincolnshire.

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Content Published May 23, 2018

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Brian Tomlin with Egg laying ostriches at Oslinc, White House Farm, Lincolnshire.

brian egg eggs farm lay laying moorby oslinc ostrich tomlin

Content Published May 23, 2018

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Brian Tomlin with Egg laying ostriches at Oslinc, White House Farm, Lincolnshire.

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Content Published May 23, 2018

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Egg laying ostriches at Oslinc, White House Farm, Lincolnshire.

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Content Published May 23, 2018

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Egg laying ostriches at Oslinc, White House Farm, Lincolnshire.

brian egg eggs farm lay laying moorby oslinc ostrich tomlin

Content Published May 23, 2018

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Egg laying ostriches at Oslinc, White House Farm, Lincolnshire.

brian egg eggs farm lay laying moorby oslinc ostrich tomlin

Content Published May 23, 2018

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Brian Tomlin with Egg laying ostriches at Oslinc, White House Farm, Lincolnshire.

brian egg eggs farm lay laying moorby oslinc ostrich tomlin

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