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Holmfirth annual torchlight procession 1st September 1991. Pirates leader Malcolm Howlett, vice president of Holmfirth and Meltham Lions club and his young crew on their float
It is a well known tradition among coopers that when an apprentice cooper completes his training he goes through the ritual of being rolled in a barrel
This is a bottle party sponsored by the town vicar. According to tradition the rector of Hallaton has to provide the beer which fills the bottle that is
Susan Barrass wearing Easter Bonnet, 20th April 1976
Betty Wyatt wearing Easter Bonnet, 20th April 1976
Liverpool May Horse Parade, City Centre, Liverpool, Saturday 9th May 1987
Easter Parade, Good Friday, 31st March 1972. North Shields and South Shields Sunday School pupils took part in the procession
MEA House, Newcastle, Easter Bonnet Parade organised by Age Concern, 6th April 1977. The winning competitors rae (l-r) Mrs Betty Reed, Mrs Marjorie Davies, Mrs Hannah Moffatt Mrs Lily Hay
Good Friday Service at Tunstall Hill, with wooden cross carried by congregation of St Cecilias Roman Catholic Church, Sunderland, Tyne and Wear. 28th March 1975
Children at Myrtle Gardens enjoying a damp bonfire night, Liverpool, Merseyside. 5th November 1979
The thrills of Guy Fawkes night are reflected in the faces of these youngsters as they gathered round their bonfire in Premier Street, Everton, Merseyside last night. 5th November 1974
Christmas lights illuminated a busy Church Street, Liverpool, packed with christmas shoppers looking for a bargain. 22nd November 1968
Tugboats of the France, Fenwick company of Tyne and Wear pictured at their moorings off South Shields. Following company tradition
Nativity Scene, Published Cardiff Echo, 24th December 1959
Robert Sells conducts the choir and orchestra at Liverpools Anglican Cathedral, who were performing a Christmas Carol concert on behalf of the Mersey Regional Health Authority. 12th December 1991
Three years old Mary Day, of Highfield Gardens, Liverpool, was one who, going to have a look at Liverpools Christmas tree on St Georges Plateau
Two youngsters gaze upwards to the top of the Christmas tree as workmen place it in Church Street, Liverpool. 3rd December 1972
Liverpool Street musician Augustus Broll does a jig around the Christmas tree in Church Street. 25th November 1982
Maypole Dancing at Wishford, Wiltshire 1959
Youngsters were startled by Santas arrival when the Huyton Fire Station staff held a special party for them inside the station. 14th December 1992
A jumble of small faces peer at a pile of very big bangers. You can just imagine the fun these Caversham children will have on Bonfire Night. October 1959 P029085
The Westminster Morris men performing their dance, not on the village green but in a shopping centre in suburbia. 20th June 1955
Costers Thanksgiving Service, London, 3rd October 1954
The Lord Mayor of Coventry, Alderman Tom Meffen, helps the carnival queen, Miss Heather Kinnie on to her float to head the Coventry Carnival procession out of Memorial Park. 14th June 1971
New Years Eve 1965 The dance floor at the Lacarno Ballroom in Coventry. 31st December 1965
Whenever the town of Gravesend, Kent, has something to celebrate the townsfolk ceremoniously burn a 30 ft. whaler after dragging it through the streets in a torchlight procession
Rytons Town Crier Noel Rippeth had nothing to ring his bell about as the torrential rain forced the cancellation of the annual Ryton Village Hirings Fair 2 May 1983
Alnwick Town Crier George Neighbour bellows to opens Alnwick Fair, with maidens Dorothy Brewis and Susan Knox 22 June 1979
Horses and people are all crowded together at the Appleby Horse Fair in Westmorland, Cumbria on 12th June 1973
Former coldstream Guardsman Billy Renwick is 70 years old but hes still got a stentorian voice and now hes hoping to put it to good use
Town Crier John Stevenson struggled through the snow at Northumberland Square in North Sheilds, to launch North Tyneside Councils campaign urging residents to claim all the Government benefits they
Loud-mouthed schoolboy John Foster has just been named as Alnwicks new Junior Bellman, pictured practising with Alnwicks Town Crier John Stevens 1 June 1986
Brothers Duncan and Colin Scott won the traditional Ponteland Blackbird Inn wheelbarrow race in a torrential downpour on 1st January 1987
Medical staff take part in a Shrove Tuesday Pancake Race along the North East Coast line 28 February 1995 circa
Pauline Barwick storms to victory in the Carlisle Shrove Tuesday Pancake race 22 February 1977
On yer Marks - Chef Roger Bacon from the Three Tuns Hotel in Durham gets the Shrove Tuesday Pancake race in Durham underway 3 March 1981
Margaret Grierson of Blakelaw, Newcastle (no 18)) wins the regional heat, 15 February 1977, of the Shrove Tuesday Pancake race which will be held at Londons Lincolns Inn Fields 22 February 1977
Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip visit to Fiji 17-19 December 1953. The Queen inspects the guard on her arrival at Lautoka in the Fiji Isles as part of her Coronation Tour. December 1953
The Queen and Princess Anne walk barefoot through a Mosque in Kuala Lumpur. 28th Feb 1972
Passing out Parade, five boy sailors fainted under the heat at an annual Trafalgar Day celebration in Trafalgar Square, London, Sunday 24th October 1971
A gurning competitor in the Egremont Crab Fair and Sports which was established in 1267, which makes it one of the oldest fairs in the world. June 1973 P033487
Baby Kim O Shea 2 months old, one of a long line of Pearly Kings and Queens was christened at St Martins in the field this afternoon by the Rev. Austen Williams
The Queen at Lautoka in Fiji, with the governer Sir Ronald Garvey. 29th Dec 1953
Fred the chimpanzee wearing clothes and tartan hat to open the eighth season of the Blair Drumond Safari PArk by rolling out the barrel May 1977
One of the faces of champion gurner Dai Llewellyn, of Mountain Ash, now aged 82 but gurning as well as ever August 1978
Scenes of Seville Man on horse making it rear up as the crowd watches
These are university constables of Cambridge or as they are commonly called the Bulldogs, seen here in their ceremonial dress
Chinese New Year Celebration Trafalgar Square London February 1977 140ft Chinese Dragon. A Chinese Dragon dance, the first ever seen in Britain was performed in Trafalgar Square
