Football at this time is still an essentially rural activity played mainly on public holidays and not so much by teams as by mobs, Shrove Tuesday being a traditional day for games across the country.
Shrove Tuesday is a traditional day for games across the country.
It is an ancient custom that is traditionally held on Easter Monday or Shrove Tuesday in the United Kingdom.
Crullers are traditionally eaten in Germany and some other European countries on Shrove Tuesday, to use up fat before Lent.
Shrove Tuesday (aka Shrove Tuesday: The Legend Of Pancake Marion) is a short film, stylistically based on the fairytales created by the Brothers Grimm.
Tuesday Weld | Shrove Tuesday | Tuesday | Tuesday's Gone | Super Tuesday | Tuesday Afternoon | Tuesday Knight | The Real Tuesday Weld | Tuesday Vargas | Tuesday Night Book Club | Tuesday Morning Quarterback | Tuesday (book) | 'Til Tuesday | Super Tuesday (2008) | Shrove Monday | Monday or Tuesday | First Tuesday (networking forum) | First Tuesday Book Club | First Tuesday | Democratic_Party_%28United_States%29_presidential_primaries%2C_2008#Beyond Super Tuesday | 2008 Super Tuesday tornado outbreak |
The Carnival of Madeira (Carnaval in Portuguese) is an annual festival held forty days before Easter, that ends on Shrove Tuesday (called Fat Tuesday in Madeira - Terça-feira Gorda in Portuguese) the day before Ash Wednesday (first day of Lent).
In Ashbourne, Jedburgh and Workington for example a traditional contest of street football between two factions of the respective towns was originally played on Shrove Tuesday.
Shrove Tuesday is the last day of "shrovetide", somewhat analogous to the Carnival tradition that developed separately in countries of Latin Europe.
Visitors to the Plough on Shrove Tuesday 1790 were the local landowner and industrialist John Losh (died 1814), father of Sara and resident at the mansion of Woodside, three miles up the road, Charles Howard, 11th Duke of Norfolk, Losh's brother James, and his cousin Joseph Liddell.