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".
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... (1875-78).
He published also an autobiography entitled Von Magdeburg nach Königsberg (1873), which deals with his life up to the time of his settlement at Königsberg. ...