Videos of the St George's Day celebrations in Sheffield 2013, Morris Men and Giant dancers.

This is a set of videos I took of the 2013 St. George's Day celebrations in Sheffield City Centre.
They performed in various places such as in front of Sheffield town hall, the Peace Gardens and Barkers Pool. They attracted a large crowd of people, visitors and locals alike. Look out for them next St George's Day in Sheffield.

The Sheffield City Giants you can see here in two of my videos were presented to the Lord Mayor of Sheffield, who accepted them on behalf of the City on 4th July 1992. They had been created by the Catalan Giant maker, Jordi Grau (honoured in the dance Jordi's) under commission from the Sheffield Festival to produce a pair of giants according to the theme of the festival 'Life and Death'. It was, however, contrary to Catalan custom to represent Death and with this in mind, the theme was altered to 'War and Peace'.





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Andy

Videos of the 2012 St George's Day celebrations in Sheffield. Morris Men and Giants

On Saturday 21st April 2012 while in Sheffield there were some celebrations to Commemorate St George's Day.
This took place in front of the Town Hall on Pinstone Street and in the Peace Gardens.
There were several sets of dancers including clog dancers, Morris Men and some Dancing Giants.
I filmed this on my iPhone 3GS so no HD footage on this one.

My videos of Sheffield's St George's Day celebrations


Dancing Giants



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Andy

Video of "Scrap Iron, Any Old Iron" - The Derby Scrap Man. Rag and Bone men with bizarre noise on Tannoy .

Here is a video I have just uploaded of some local Derby scrap men and their "Scrap Iron, Any Old Iron" noise on the Tannoy.

If your from Derby then I'm sure that at some point in the last few years you will have heard this very strange sound along your street. This guy and another scrap man drive around collecting scrap metal.
Looking on YouTube now I see this very same sound seems to be used by lots of scrap collection vans all over the UK.
Where on earth do they get the same sound from?

I've even heard this sound around Burton on Trent, Staffs.
The sound at the beginning of my video is from another scrap man that drove past in 2009.

My Video of Derby Scrap Men and their unique sound !


Video of Derby Scrap men.

Where have you heard them in Derby?




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Andy