Real ale, morris dancing, & ferret racing: Chappel

The Chappel Ale festival is a celebration of rural culture; it's a place full of old faces and local oddities, and a reason for hard grafting country-folk to revel together with tankards of ale and traditional music. Regardless of brexit and the odd union jack, these types of event are not a celebration of Britishness but local eccentricity.

These are the countryside communities surrounded by proposals of greenfield suburbanisation and the white-collar cultural sprawl of London.

Belchamp Morris Men

Monty at the ferret races by the Essex Ferret Welfare Society