Shrove Tuesday
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About Shrove Tuesday
Shrove Tuesday is the day in February or March immediately preceding Ash Wednesday, which is celebrated in some countries by consuming pancakes.
Olney: The town where a pancake race is a global event
... So what makes this pancake race so special? The people of Olney take their annual Shrove Tuesday pancake race very seriously indeed...
Atherstone ball game returns for 822nd year after pandemic break
...A Warwickshire town kicked off its ancient Shrove Tuesday ball game following a two-year break due to the coronavirus pandemic...
Week in pictures: 22-28 February
... The game has very few rules, is played over two eight-hour periods on Shrove Tuesday and ash Wednesday...
Shrove Tuesday: Surrey police with a pancake in the hunt for suspects
...Thomas McKeogh, 45, from Hayes, is wanted in connection with failure in court A police marking Shrove Tuesday by working with a crepe artist in search of suspected criminals...
Shrove Tuesday football: 'No quarter asked'
... Each of the winners - including the three victorious members of the Adcock family gets to keep the ball the Shrove Tuesday football games back have been certificated to the country as far as the 12th century, according to Dr...
In pictures: the battle of The oranges
...Once a year, in the run-up to Shrove Tuesday, the citizens of the medieval town of Ivrea in Italy, gather in the village to hurl space oranges to each other...
Shrove Tuesday Photos
