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© Si Barber 07739 472 922 Molly and Morris dancers parading through the town of Whittlesea in Cambs in celebration of Plough Monday - a Medieval tradition in which unemployed agricultural labourers begged for alms. Participants went in disguise to avoid prosecution from the authorities and caused mischief for those who would not pay them. 170110.

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Content Published August 4, 2017

© Si Barber 07739 472 922 Molly and Morris dancers parading through the town of Whittlesea in Cambs in celebration of Plough Monday - a Medieval tradition in which unemployed agricultural labourers begged for alms. Participants went in disguise to avoid prosecution from the authorities and caused mischief for those who would not pay them. 170110.

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© Si Barber 07739 472 922 Molly and Morris dancers parading through the town of Whittlesea in Cambs in celebration of Plough Monday - a Medieval tradition in which unemployed agricultural labourers begged for alms. Participants went in disguise to avoid prosecution from the authorities and caused mischief for those who would not pay them. 170110.

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

Content Published August 4, 2017

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© Si Barber 07739 472 922 Molly and Morris dancers parading through the town of Whittlesea in Cambs in celebration of Plough Monday - a Medieval tradition in which unemployed agricultural labourers begged for alms. Participants went in disguise to avoid prosecution from the authorities and caused mischief for those who would not pay them. 170110.

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

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© Si Barber 07739 472 922 Molly and Morris dancers parading through the town of Whittlesea in Cambs in celebration of Plough Monday - a Medieval tradition in which unemployed agricultural labourers begged for alms. Participants went in disguise to avoid prosecution from the authorities and caused mischief for those who would not pay them. 170110.

2020 agricultural alms barber bear begin beginning black blacking boy cambridgeshire cambs dance dancers dancing disguise disguised face farm farming festival folk molly monday morris mummers mummery plough si staw straw strawbear tradition traditional up whittlesey www.sibarber.co.uk year

Content Published August 4, 2017

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© Si Barber 07739 472 922 Molly and Morris dancers parading through the town of Whittlesea in Cambs in celebration of Plough Monday - a Medieval tradition in which unemployed agricultural labourers begged for alms. Participants went in disguise to avoid prosecution from the authorities and caused mischief for those who would not pay them. 170110.

2020 agricultural alms barber bear begin beginning black blacking boy cambridgeshire cambs dance dancers dancing disguise disguised face farm farming festival folk molly monday morris mummers mummery plough si staw straw strawbear tradition traditional up whittlesey www.sibarber.co.uk year

Content Published August 4, 2017

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© Si Barber 07739 472 922 Molly and Morris dancers parading through the town of Whittlesea in Cambs in celebration of Plough Monday - a Medieval tradition in which unemployed agricultural labourers begged for alms. Participants went in disguise to avoid prosecution from the authorities and caused mischief for those who would not pay them. 170110.

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

Content Published August 4, 2017

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.

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

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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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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 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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Content Published January 19, 2017

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A participant with their face black-up at the Strawbear Festival Whittlesey, Cambs

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Content Published January 19, 2017

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A participant at the Strawbear Festival Whittlesey, Cambs

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Content Published July 21, 2015

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© Si Barber 07739 472 922 A fancy dress competition being judged, Bamford, Derbyshire.

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Content Published February 3, 2015

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Content Published February 3, 2015

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