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People Line The Streets To Watch The Annual Parade

1979 , Northampton (Northamptonshire)

Cat no. 114295

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Northampton Carnival and felling of a tree for Corby Highland Games.

Film shot to accompany two Anglia Television news stories transmitted 22 June 1979. At Northampton, crowds of people watch the annual carnival parade. On a float advertising Carlsberg lager and Special Brew, girls dressed as drink cans throw cans to onlookers. On an island-themed float, girls wear grass skirts with floral garlands over their cardigans. The Carnival Queen and her attendants wave from a float with an ornamental canopy. Donated money is being collected in buckets. At Corby, a group of men in hard hats carrying axes go into the woods and select a tree to be felled to serve as a caber for their annual Highland Games. The group drink a toast to the tree. It is then felled with an axe and the trunk, trimmed of its branches, is carried off by several men.

Featured Events

Northampton Carnival 1979

Keywords

Carnivals; Alcohol; Carlsberg; Tree Felling; Highland Games; Scottish Community; Tossing the caber

Other Places

Corby, Northamptonshire

Background Information

Corby, Northamptonshire was at one time known locally as "Little Scotland" due to the large number of Scottish migrant workers who came to Corby for its steelworks. The Corby Highland Games celebrate that connection.

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People Line The Streets To Watch The Annual Parade

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