2. • Starts at Marsden Station. Lantern & torch parade with firejugglers, antler-wearing drummers, Celtic characters, fire druids,
a 12th Jack Frost and spring's Green Man.
3. • The game starts at 10.30am. The silver ball is thrown from the
wall of the parish church by the mayor into the waiting crowd.
4. • Pancake Races:Pancake races are held all over England on or
near Shrove Tuesday.
• Annual Pancake Grease:The annual Pancake Grease is held.
• The Ringing of the Pancake Bell:More than a hundred years
ago, Shrove Tuesday used to be a half-day holiday.
5. • A playground tradition was to carry a piece of twig from an
ash tree in your pocket or down your sock.
6. • Friday of Shrove Week, English schoolboys were once entitled
to kiss girls without fear of punishment or rejection, a custom
that lasted until at least the 1940.
