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CARDIFF, UNITED KINGDOM. February 13 2018. A policeman participating in a pancake race held by The Crepe Escape at Mermaid Quay, Cardiff. ©Photo Matthew Lofthouse - Freelance Photographer
CARDIFF, UNITED KINGDOM. February 13 2018. A portrait of a policeman holding a pan before he participated in a pancake race is held outside The Crepe Escape at Mermaid Quay, Cardiff. ©Photo Matthew Lofthouse - Freelance Photographer
The clergy from St Albans cathedral always take part int he traditional Pancake race. #17 Taken on Shrove Tuesday for the group 115 pictures in 2015
Many towns in the U.K. hold a pancake race on Shrove Tuesday and Woking is one of them.
Here we see our local Member of Parliament, Jonathon Lord in action, and you can just see his pancake away from the pan. Many participants drop their pancake and picking it up again just slows them down.
Mr. Lord was part of the Shopmobility team, and since they were organisers and one of their number was the scorer, he was always going to be spared the embarrassment of being in the winning squad!
Woking, Surrey
21st February 2023
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CARDIFF, UNITED KINGDOM. February 13 2018. A crepe is tossed from a pan by a lady during a pancake race held by The Crepe Escape at Mermaid Quay, Cardiff. ©Photo Matthew Lofthouse - Freelance Photographer
Here are some Winster Pancake Race enthusiasts checking the size of a frying-pan before the start of a race probably in the late 1950s or early 1960s.
From left to right - Pat Mayling, Dorothy Bateman, Monica Stone, unidentified man and George Noton, Headteacher of Winster School.
This is a photograph by Harry Gill the well-known local photographer of the time.
I was fortunate to see Harry working and have long admired his Winster photographs which can be seen elsewhere on this site.
I stumbled across this image on the Facebook page "Matlock & Peak District Memories" which was set up on 6 March 2016 by a granddaughter of Harry. She had a number of original images of Harry's work but little information about the people, places and events depicted. She indicated that each image was being scanned and catalogued and would then be stored by Derbyshire County Council. She invited visitors to the page to contribute to her project by identifying the people and places and events shown in the various photos. I was able to identify three of the individuals shown in this image.
Harry Gill's work is of high quality and deserves to be preserved; it makes a valuable contribution to mid-Derbyshire's social and local history. Please visit Facebook's page "Matlock & Peak District Memories" and enjoy the images there and you too may be able to contribute to the project.
This image is reproduced by kind permission of "Matlock & Peak District Memories."
17 April 2016.
From left to right - Cecil Mayling, unidentified, unidentified, Dr. A.D. Stoker, Eric Shimwell and unidentified.
This is a photograph by Harry Gill the well-known local photographer of the time.
I was fortunate to see Harry working and have long admired his Winster photographs which can be seen elsewhere on this site.
I stumbled across this image on the Facebook page "Matlock & Peak District Memories" which was set up on 6 March 2016 by a granddaughter of Harry. She had a number of original images of Harry's work but little information about the people, places and events depicted. She indicated that each image was being scanned and catalogued and would then be stored by Derbyshire County Council. She invited visitors to the page to contribute to her project by identifying the people and places and events shown in the various photos. I was able to identify three of the individuals shown in this image.
Harry Gill's work is of high quality and deserves to be preserved; it makes a valuable contribution to mid-Derbyshire's social and local history. Please visit Facebook's page "Matlock & Peak District Memories" and enjoy the images there and you too may be able to contribute to the project.
This image is reproduced by kind permission of "Matlock & Peak District Memories."
17 April 2016.
Spitalfields Pancake race at Old Truman Brewery on Shrove Tuesday, 21st Feb 2012. Teams raced flipping pancakes as crowds cheered them on in an event organised by Alternative Arts to raise money for London Air Ambulance.
London, 28th February 2017 Naga Munchetty practices a toss at the start of the Rehab Parliamentray Pancake race.
The man at left was Mr. Price who was Head Teacher at Winster School.
It should be possible to identify some of the other people too but I need your assistance, please.
This image is reproduced by kind permission of Sheffield Newspapers Ltd.
A snapshot of Race winner Jane Hughes (in the red apron) as she leads the Pancake Race at Olney, 24th February 2009. Well done Jane.
Some details about the race.
According to tradition the Pancake Race at Olney in Buckinghamshire, England, was first run in the year 1445. It was run on Shrove Tuesday, the day before Lent. As I understand it the race continued over the centuries including through the Wars of The Roses. there were lapses but the race was never forgotten.
The race leaflet states that the Vicar of Olney, Cannon Ronald Collins, revived the race in 1948 after finding old photographs of the event from before World War Two.
In 1950 the town of Liberal in Kansas set up a similar event and the two towns now compete annually with prizes being exchanged between them.
There are few rules:
Contestants must have lived in the town of Olney for at least 3 months immediately prior to the event.
They must be women of at least 18 years of age.
The traditional costume of the housewife is worn including a skirt head cover and an apron, (contestants need not be married).
At the start the contestants have to toss their pancakes and the winner has to do so again before being declared the winner.
All in all it is a great day out and well worth a visit on a Shrove Tuesday. The main race starts at 1155am.
Please don't take my ramblings as gospel (I openly admit to having plagiarised several notes to inform you), if you are really interested in Olney visit the town's web site at
The lady at the back is Gladys Percival (nee Boam). Your help is needed to identify the children.
This image is reproduced by kind permission of Sheffield Newspapers Ltd.
The man at right in the light sweater was Mr. Price, the Head Teacher at Winster School.
Your help is needed to identify any of the other people.
This image is reproduced by kind permission of Sheffield Newspapers Ltd.
A 1955 cutting from The Sheffield Telegraph.
There might be a clue amongst some of these people who are from left to right:-
Back Row - Kathleen Spencer, Winnie Spencer, Eve Nutt, unidentified, Evelyn Mayling, Miriam and Dorothy Bateman.
Front Row - First two unidentified, Jennifer Walker, Christine and Jennifer Roper, unidentified, Edward Fisher, Joyce Blackham, and unidentified.
This image is reproduced by kind permission of Cedric Ellis.
Click on this link to see another image from a newspaper cutting of the same group.
Battling it out from left to right are:-
Andrew Hession, Judy Mather, unidentifield and is the girl at right one of the Stone sisters?
Can you help with identification?
This image is reproduced by kind permission of Judy Scott (nee Mather).
This image is a cutting from The Matlock Mercury.
The girls racing from left to right are : unidentified , Claire Roper, Joann Shirley; Kerry Ashin and Marie Hill. Joann was the winner!
At far left in the background is Mrs Grindrod who was a teacher at Winster School.
The cutting was kindly supplied by Joann Shirley.