GREAT BRITAIN / England /Gloucestershire/Coopers Hill/GLOUCESTERSHIRE CHEESE ROLLING RACE /Master of Ceremonies Rob Seex.

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GREAT BRITAIN / England /Gloucestershire/Coopers Hill/GLOUCESTERSHIRE CHEESE ROLLING RACE /Contestant runing down a steep 200-metre slope in pursuit of a 7-pound Cloucester Cheese. The cheese rolling is one of the oldest customs to have survived some saying, for hundreds of years, even pre-Roman times. The ceremony is reported taken place originally at midsummer and to have been moved to Whitsun in early Saxon times. Some say it is a relic of an old heathen festival to celebrate the return of spring say, when held in midsummer, it represented the waning of the sun as summer reached its height, but no one knows for sure.

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