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The wakes week is a holiday period in parts of England and Scotland. Originally a religious celebration or feast, the tradition of the wakes week developed into a secular holiday, particularly in the north west of England during the industrial revolution. In Scotland each city has a “trades fortnight” two weeks in the summer when tradesmen take their holidays.
Although a strong tradition during the 19th and 20th centuries, the observance of the holiday has almost disappeared in recent times due to the decline of the manufacturing industries in the United Kingdom and the standardisation of school holidays across England.
In 601 AD Pope Gregory I wrote a letter to Mellitus (a member of the Gregorian mission sent to England to convert the Anglo-Saxons from their native paganism to Christianity) which read:
When, therefore, Almighty God shall bring you to the most reverend man our brother bishop, St Augustine, tell him what I have, upon mature deliberation on the affair of the English, thought of; namely, that the temples of the idols in that nation ought not to be destroyed. Let holy water be made, and sprinkled in the said temples; let altars be erected, and let relics be deposited in them. For since those temples are built, it is requisite that they be converted from the worship of the devils to the service of the true God; that the nation, not seeing those temples destroyed, may remove error from their hearts, and knowing and adoring the true God, may the more familiarly resort to the same places to which they have been accustomed. And because they are wont to sacrifice many oxen in honour of the devils, let them celebrate a religious and solemn festival, not slaughtering the beasts for devils, but to be consumed by themselves, to the praise of God...
Wakes week often now referred to as Preston holidays is a century old tradition dating back to Industrial Lancashire. Different industrial towns would have holidays staggered through the summer with Preston Mills closing down for the last two weeks in July, armies of workers would flock to the seaside for what was hard fought for holidays which were often unpaid with many saving in a holiday club each year - you can see them here in 1925 starting their journey at Preston train station, also look out for the tram on Fishergate. credit Reuters Ltd
Blackpool is at its very best during Wakes Week says Carl Bernard. You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/youtube/7b4b3e566a544eddb18f6d15e1850795 Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork
Yorkshire, Wakes Week, 1940's. Yorkshire mill in the foreground and countryside in the background with no smoke coming from the chimneys. An empty side street without people and a row of closed shops. A shop window with a kitten on the ledge; a sign reads "Annual Holidays, closed from June 28th - July 7th". Wakes week. A queue of people with luggage on a pebbled square move slowly into a railway station. Close view of people with happy faces handing their tickets to the guard and boarding a red LMS passenger train. Drivers lean out of the window. The guard waves the flag. Close view of the train wheels as they begin to move and steam rises. The train leaves the station and people look out of the window. Red brick wall with a large poster of a seaside image which reads "Blackpool"....
Hope wakes week Carnival Day 2015. Great to see these old traditions are still being upheld, not only in Derbyshire but all over the country.
Part 2 of the Winster Wakes Week Carnival. The Morris Dancers were super, I wrote a little explanation about them and their dance along with a little something about the village of Winster.
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Mike Harding - A Lancashire Lad The July Wakes
Song about a couple of Mill workers taking a local break for the only holiday week of the year. Wakes. Normally in July to August depending on which town in Lancashire you lived
In May 2015 MA Art Gallery and Museum Studies and MA Arts Management, Policy and Practice students from the University of Manchester worked with the Manchester Central Library to curate a new interactive exhibition and an exciting series of events - together the cultural creations were called 'Manchester Wakes'. Inspired by the tradition of 'Wakes Week', which saw factory workers travelling around the UK to enjoy family holidays by the sea, the project involved local historical stories, absorbing musical performances and engaging community activities. The exhibition titled 'Wonderland by the Waves' saw students from the university's MA Art Gallery and Museum Studies bring together historical pieces from a range of Northern museums. The live event Workers at Play delivered diverse musical...
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LibriVox recording of Hindle Wakes, by Stanley Houghton, with accompanying essay by Emma Goldman. Read by volunteer readers. Alan Jeffcote, son of Nat Hawthorn, Hindle's richest factory owner, meets Fanny Hawthorn, daughter of Nat's 'slasher' and oldest friend, in Blackpool and the two go off for what they believe to be secret fling in Llandudno. But after the death of Fanny's friend, Mary, in a pleasure boat accident at Blackpool the secret is revealed and the the two families are thrown into disarray. The leading light of the so-called Manchester School of realist dramatists, Stanley Houghton wrote Hindle Wakes in 1911 and it was a hit both in Mrs. Horniman's Gaiety Theatre in Manchester and the Aldwych Theatre, London in the following year. Houghton's best known play, Hindle Wakes has ...
This is Wakes Week @ Tideswell - This is how the Square look like during the Day :)
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