The Straw Bear Festival in Whittlesey, Cambridgeshire England.
This gentleman is a member of the Kings Morris Troupe of Dancers.

In Whittlesea, from when no one quite knows, it was the custom on the Tuesday following Plough Monday (the 1st Monday after Twelfth Night) to dress one of the confraternity of the plough in straw and call him a 'Straw Bear'. A newspaper of 1882 reports that "... he was then taken around the town to entertain by his frantic and clumsy gestures the good folk who had on the previous day subscribed to the rustics, a spread of beer, tobacco and beef".

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Two of The Old Glory Musicians.

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This is the Whittlesey Straw Bear being paraded through the town.

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A Member of Old Glory Molly Dancers and Musicians
Another character from the weekend Straw Bear Festival

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