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Over the course of his career, folklorist Doc Rowe has run through the streets with a flaming barrel strapped to his back, covered a man from head to toe with prickly burdock seeds and filmed people launching themselves down a steep hill in pursuit of a rapidly rolling wheel of cheese.
The streets in East Sussex - dubbed the bonfire capital of the world - were turned into a riot of colour and noise, as hoards of people gathered to watch bonfire societies parade through.
Ottery St Mary’s Tar Barrels event takes place on Saturday, November 4, 2023.
Like many thousands of others, I headed over to Ottery St Mary last weekend for the Tar Barrels event
Ottery St Mary Friends of Phyllis Baxter Action Group writes for the Herald. In the last few years our traders had to endure very difficult times...