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Orange Rolling

The Downs c1960 Ref: D69014
The Downs c1960
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Orange rolling, Good Friday afternoon up the 'orange pit'. There used to be crowds of people all chasing little oranges down the hill. Never quite sure what you did if you caught one, I'm sure it wouldn't have been fit to eat!

Is this peculiar to Dunstable? I know of cheese rolling, where they chase a double gloucester cheese down a hill in Leckhampton (near Cheltenham) but haven't come across anything else similar elsewhere.

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A memory of Dunstable in Bedfordshire shared on Monday, 18th August 2008.

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