I’m here to report that merrie olde England is alive and well… at least in Hebden Bridge‘s annual Handmade Parade. Still, watching all the monsters, I couldn’t help thinking of Ray Bradbury’s novel Something Wicked This Way Comes.
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That’s only a few miles South of us and I didn’t know about it. Up here, every year in August we have the Burning of Bartle. I blogged about it a few years ago:
https://sackerson.wordpress.com/2014/08/25/the-burning-of-bartle/
Fascinating! Thanks for sharing that.