Harwich International Shanty Festival
The whole of the old seaport town rings with hearty singing as shanty crews from around the world fill pubs, boats and historic buildings with songs of the sea.
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"West Mersea Island has held its town regatta since 1838 and the August event on the Blackwater estuary combines sailing races with watersports and a fireworks finale, an evening on an island famous for its oysters where the Essex marshes glow gold in the late summer light."
West Mersea Town Regatta
"Each August Bank Holiday, the medieval church of St Peter ad Vincula in this Essex wool town is transformed into a themed spectacle of flowers that has dazzled visitors for over three decades."
Coggeshall Flower Festival
"The town famous for its sea salt fills the quayside with street food from around the world, craft beer, artisan cheese, cider and gin bars over August Bank Holiday weekend."
Maldon Food and Drink Festival
"Five days of real ale among the steam engines and the great brick viaduct at the East Anglian Railway Museum, the village beer festival that comes with platforms."
Chappel Beer Festival
"Set in the antiques-village backdrop of Battlesbridge, this community bonfire night includes a Guy Fawkes-making workshop, giant bonfire lighting ceremony, and a professional fireworks display with free sparklers on entry."
Battlesbridge Annual Firework Spectacular
"Forty years of world-class orchestral, folk and jazz music performed in a soaring medieval wool church at the heart of one of Essex's most perfectly preserved small towns."
Thaxted Festival
"Three days of music, ale, art and family on a Suffolk estate, famed for its premieres and firsts and a reputation as one of the best-loved folk weekends in the country."
FolkEast
"A whole Suffolk market town turns its churches, pubs and castle bailey into stages for a long weekend of folk where most of the music is free and open to all."
Bungay Folk Festival
"Sea shanty crews from across Britain take over five coastal venues, turning the harbour lanes of a tiny North Norfolk village into a roving maritime singalong all weekend."
Brancaster Staithe Sea Shanty Festival
"A small but perfectly formed music festival with a heart of folk spread across barns and an orchard on a working farm on the wild North Norfolk coast."
Deepdale Festival
"On the first of October in this small Hertfordshire village, the leaves from Church Lane are swept onto the road so that an elderly man from the parish can roll down the lane and the children can shout after him, a custom so old and so eccentric that even the villagers are not entirely sure what it commemorates."
Braughing Old Man's Day
✦ Weird and Wonderful"Sawston Parish Council's annual community bonfire and fireworks display at Huckeridge Hill raises funds for local charities through a volunteer bucket collection, keeping this Cambridgeshire village tradition alive each autumn."
Sawston Village Bonfire and Fireworks