Whit Friday

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    WTF is it all about ? Over in Lancashire yesterday, today and 2moro is all about whit weekend. How come we don't tend to celibrate it in Yorkshire ? It's a beer festival, bands, games etc. Today for example is a pub crawl. You dress up in fancy dress to earn a token which means a free pint at any pub in Oldham you want.
     
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    we used to and then it became spring bank holiday
     
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    i am quite happy living in huddersfield thanks. well away from the race riots and trouble of oldham.
     
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    Whitsuntide

    ..or Whit for short, is a proper festival, which drops exactly 7 weeks after Easter.</p>

    The Labour Government changed it in 1968 to Spring Bank holiday, which always falls the last weekend of May.</p>

    Lots of people still celebrate Whit - and so they bloody well should!</p>
     
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    Pentecost

    Its the celebration of after Christ had ascended to heaven and the Holy Spirit descended down to the Apostles. The Book of Acts Chapter 2 gives all the details.
     
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