Bread throwing festival: A 'silly' tradition at Wath Festival

Yorkshire Post

From Morris dancing to the annual bread throwing tradition, hundreds turn out for Wath Festival this Early Bank Holiday Weekend.   Video by James Hardisty and Sophie Mei Lan Malin.

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00:00We're here in the Queen of Villages, yes, Wharf of Honden, Robhram, Doncaster, Barnsley

00:07and we're just heading to the town centre where the will of Thomas Cheek will be read out before some bread throwing

00:13because yes, it's the Wharf Festival!

00:19The Green Ginger Garland Dancers!

00:30Signed, Thomas Cheek. Witness, X. And, X.

00:55Is that the same age?

01:06In Thomas' will, he bequeathed bread each year to be donated to the needy

01:12and it's become quite an annual tradition to be thrown from the rooftops of All Saints Church spire.

01:24As the crowds rallied around, I realised it became quite competitive to catch a bread roll.

01:48Everyone's getting very excited. Some people are getting crushed on the head by bread rolls.

01:53It's everywhere. It's a brilliant occasion for the people of Wharf to come all together

01:59and celebrate such a unique and diverse, just wealth of everything.

02:05Silly, bread throwing from a church tower, where's that happened?

02:09In Yorkshire, in England, in the country.

02:12James Hardisty and Sophie Malan here reporting from the Queen of Villages, Wharf of Honden.

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