Special occasions in the forest (General)

by Jefff , West London, Middlesex, Tuesday, October 09, 2018, 18:06 (2019 days ago) @ Bridewell

Certainly the Harvest festival was always celebrated, as a kid I loved it at our church in Cinderford. Altho' it seems a bit odd seeing as most of the Forest isn't an agricultural area, altho the old miners invariably grew their own veg etc.

For photos as well as the Gallery on this site, I suggest searching "festival" and similar words on the Sungreen site, which I see gives dozens of hits for "Harvest".
https://www.sungreen.co.uk/Sungreen-Search.htm

The Baptist movement was also very keen on Church parades. There were definitely miner's Galas and Sports too, on Bank Holidays, held at Speech House if I recall correctly.

Another word to search would be "customs", searching this forum gives this thread about Roping newlyweds and "barring the way".
https://forum.forest-of-dean.net/index.php?id=42631

Probably also worth searching the old newspapers, this old forum page should help in this respect. I think "curiosities" would be a word favoured by the Victorian newspaper editors.
https://forum.forest-of-dean.net/index.php?id=46941

PS sorry should have said, no idea why but these links are sometimes best viewed by opening into a new tab or window.