SEND FLOWERS TO BACUP, LANCASHIRE

Bacup is a town that lies within the Forest of Rossendale in Lancashire. Best known for its cotton mills, English Heritage proclaimed it to be the best-preserved cotton town in England and its town centre is designated as a protected area for its special architectural qualities. Bacup has one of the shortest streets in the world - Elgin Street - a mere 5.2 meters and can only be accessed by a walkway or viewed from the railings above. Visit the town on Easter Saturday and see their English country dance troupe - the Britannia Coco-nut Dancers - performs traditional folk routines in town. They wear distinctive costumes and makeup as they process through Bacup and are accompanied by members of Stacksteads Silver Band.

AA Gill, writing in The Sunday Times, described the Britannia Coco-nut Dancers as bizarrely compelling:

'The dance begins with each Nutter cocking a hand to his ear to listen to something we human folk can’t catch. They then wag a finger at each other, and they’re off, stamping and circling, occasionally holding bent wands covered with red, white and blue rosettes that they weave into simple patterns. It’s not pretty, and it’s not clever. It is, simply, awe-inspiringly, astonishingly other. Morris men from southern troupes come and watch in slack-jawed silence. Nothing in the civilised world is quite as elementally bizarre and awkwardly compelling as the Coco-nutters of Bacup'.

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