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Another Fine Fest 2017 - Ulverston - Cumbria - Contrary Life

A human bowlercoaster and live street art in Cumbria

Ulverston will come alive next weekend, with everything from window painting and yarnbombing, to live street art and wandering theatre performances…

Great Knaresborough Bed Race 2015

No sleep ’til the Great Knaresborough Bed Race

What connects a bed, a fancy dress team of runners and the River Nidd? A bed race in Yorkshire of course!

Robert Dover's Cotswold Olimpicks - Photo: Josiah Robinson

Quirky rural games at the Cotswold Olimpicks

A 407 year old sporting event featuring a host of quirky rural games such as shin kicking, will be taking place in the Cotswolds…

World Custard Pie Championship 2016

Pies will fly in Kent at quirky championship

Teams will be battling it out in Kent this June, as the World Custard Pie Championships 2019 take place in the village of Coxheath…

Watercress Festival - Alresford - Hampshire

A quirky challenge to eat your greens

This weekend in Hampshire, challengers will be chowing down on seasonal greens, with the hope of breaking an unusual World Record…

Meet the Durham 68th Regiment at Beamish's Georgian Fair

Quack doctors and fire eaters at Georgian Fair

The Squire of Pockerley is inviting visitors to join him this weekend at Beamish, for all fun of the Georgian Fair…

Covent Garden May Fayre and Puppet Festival

Join Mr Punch at the May Fayre and Puppet Festival

This weekend, join Mr Punch as he celebrates his 357th birthday in Covent Garden, at the May Fayre and Puppet Festival…

Clun Green Man Festival 2017 - the Jester and the Frost Queen

The battle for spring at Clun Green Man Festival

The Clun Green Man Festival is a traditional annual event with music, drama and medieval merriment, celebrating the arrival of spring…

Llandudno Victorian Extravaganza 2018 - Alice Parr

Vintage attractions at Llandudno Victorian Extravaganza

The popular Welsh seaside town of Llandudno will be filled with traditional entertainment this bank holiday weekend as they hold their annual extravaganza…

Dorset Knob Throwing (Photo: Rupert Cake)

Dorset Knob Throwing contest takes the biscuit

Enjoy a day out with a difference by heading along to the Dorset Knob Throwing and Food Festival this weekend…

Geffrye Museum May Day

A Merrie May Day in London

Head to the Geffrye Museum in London this bank holiday weekend, to celebrate the arrival of spring with activities, food and a traditional Maypole…

Festival of Vintage - Photo: James & Laura Adams from Grandma Eileen's Vintage

A Festival of Vintage in York

Take a trip to the past this weekend as York’s Festival of Vintage takes place, celebrating all things vintage from the 1930s to the 1960s…

Wray Scarecrow Festival - Contrary Life

Scarecrows take on an eco theme at Wray’s quirky festival

For ten days every year, the village of Wray in Lancashire is overrun with scarecrows of all shapes and sizes, from four centimetres to four metres tall…

Camborne - Trevithick Day - Cornwall

A celebration of Cornish culture in Camborne

This weekend, Camborne will come alive with dancing and music, in celebration of Cornwall’s culture and heritage…

Morpeth Northumbrian Gathering - Ray Alexander

Traditional crafts, dance and music in Morpeth

Morpeth will be welcoming visitors to the town as they showcase Northumberland’s traditions in their annual festival of music, dance, craft and dialect…

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Curiosity of the Week

Visit a Venetian Waterway in Norfolk
Great Yarmouth Venetian Waterway - photo: Gary Philo

Our latest Curiosity of the Week is a Venetian style waterway in the seaside resort of Great Yarmouth…

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Unique light display in Cornwall
Mousehole Harbour Lights

Head to the Cornish fishing village of Mousehole this winter, for their unique annual Christmas lights display…

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