Saddleworth Rushcart

[watervole]

 Because it's my day for talking about folk traditions...

Here - with comments on each photo to explain what is happening - is Saddleworth Rushcart procession.

This is a modern rushcart - and the event is totally unadvertised and totally amazing.

 I took the photos last year.  I'd have gone again this year, but I'd already booked for Discworld and it clashes.

I took four short video clips - they're called Saddleworth Rushcart 1,2,3,4 if you want to view any after the first...

Comments

[decemberleaf.livejournal.com]

... "Because it's my day for talking about folk traditions..." - Your day, and these absolutely made my day!

[watervole.livejournal.com]

Big hug!

Thank you. You may just have earned a maypole post.

[vjezkova.livejournal.com]

*Clap hands* What a day - thank you very much!
Oh, I like that atmosphere so much, I wish I was there!( Here people are indifferent and instead of finding something to cheer them up, they keep giving up..).
The music alone just makes me hop!:-)

[watervole.livejournal.com]

It was amazing. I walked for several miles with the rushcart, abandoning my mother in a tearoom in Uppermill. I was on a high the whole time.

I know that I have to go back again sometime and try and do the entire day with them.

[vjezkova.livejournal.com]

I would go too!:-)
BTW, the places sound familiar, I do have an old friend there in Uppermill, Higher Shaws Farm:-)

[watervole.livejournal.com]

Could be a perfect excuse to meet up! (Not this year owning to the clash with Discworld, but next year, who knows?

[vjezkova.livejournal.com]

Believe me, I really really hope that this meeting of ours will come true. I am still at work (alleluya) and quite busy, you know that eternal problem of time and money, don´t you? *Grin and sigh*