The town is the only one outside Derbyshire which practises the ancient custom of Well dressing. There is also a ceremony involving straw, known as "Tossing the Sheaf".
All Wikipedia text
is available under the
terms of the GNU Free Documentation License
Search Encyclopedia
Search over one million articles, find something about almost anything!
... Many groups were not enthusiastic at first.
When Germans initiated a forced labor draft in France in the beginning of 1943, thousands of young men fled and joined ...