A Quick World In Your Ear

Aaaaah... Sweet England!!

The Sweeps Festival - How Dickensian can you become...

As a true gesture to us Brits living in the past we had great fun at the 'Sweeps Festival' this May Bank Holiday.... whether you view Rochester as 'the town in which Dickens is claimed to write Oliver Twist' a few hundred years ago - or whether you remember it as 'just another Medway town' of the 20th Century - the good folks of Rochester have played a great spin and used the old to bring joy to the new.... any excuse to let that true British character shine through : a good pint, a good laugh and hidden well behind the masks a good excuse to forget who you are and be someone else for the weekend... Well played to you all - must remember my recorder next time!













And for those into history :
The Chimney Sweeps Procession did exist and was held traditionally on 1st May in Rochester - but in 1868 the Climbing Boys' Act made it illegal to employ young boys to climb the chimneys so the procession began to die out - the last one being in the early 1900s. It was revived in 1981 to become what you see today.....