Some Entertainments
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The Bale of Hay Races at Robert Dover's Olimpick GamesBetty Stocker©
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Expect to be welcomed to Dover's Hill by the sound of an old time Fairground Organ.
The Campden Morrismen, one of the oldest groups in the country, will provide you with some lively dancing, in contrast to the stirring sound of the Coventry Corps of Drums and the lilt of the pipes from the St Andrew's Pipe Band of Cheltenham. Elsewhere on the upper slope you will find a Punch and Judy presentation, and may be able to gurn through a horse-collar.
Providing an exhibition of backsword fighting which was a feature of the Games for three centuries will be some doughtly Londoners.
Not to be missed is the rousing conclusion to the Games, the lighting of the bonfire by the Scuttlebrook Queen, the fireworks that light the night sky, and then the sight of thousands of people in the torchlight procession wending their way from the hill down to the Square in Chipping Campden.
Providing an exhibition of backsword fighting which was a feature of the Games for three centuries will be some doughtly Londoners.
Not to be missed is the rousing conclusion to the Games, the lighting of the bonfire by the Scuttlebrook Queen, the fireworks that light the night sky, and then the sight of thousands of people in the torchlight procession wending their way from the hill down to the Square in Chipping Campden.
Robert Dover's Cotswold Olimpick Games.
Secretary: Dr Francis Burns: Tel: +44 (0)1384 274041 burnsfda2@btinternet.com
Secretary: Dr Francis Burns: Tel: +44 (0)1384 274041 burnsfda2@btinternet.com
