Search gallery:

GB Cheeserolling (23 images)

Created 30 Jan 2009.  
Share
twitterlinkedinfacebook
Batch Download Slideshow Add to Cart
View: 250 | All
UK ENGLAND COOPERS HILL 31MAY04 - The cheese rolling consists of a 7-pound Cloucester Cheese being thrown down a steep 200-metre slope and contestants throwing themselves down in pursuit of it. Cheeserolling is one of the oldest English customs to have survived some saying, for hundreds of years, even pre-Roman times. The ceremony is reported to have taken place originally at midsummer and to have been moved to Whitsun in early Saxon times. Some say it is a relic of an old heathen festival...
more »
View: 250 | All