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British Special Days October 2009 - 2011
Holidays in the UK

Facts and Sayings about October | Interactive Calendars 2010

October 2010
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World Conker Championships, Northamptonshire Follow this link to find out more about this traditional game	11 Oct
The Pearly Kings and Queens Harvest Festival at St Martin-in-the-Fields on Trafalgar Square. The 'Pearlies' were costermonger's (street seller of fruit (apples, etc.) and their distinctive costumes are said to have sprung from the arrival of a big cargo of pearl-buttons from Japan in the 1860's.	12 Oct	Sept/Oct	Sept/Oct
Commonwealth Games The Commonwealth Games is a multinational, multi-sport event. Held every four years, it involves the elite athletes of the Commonwealth of Nations.		2 -14 Oct
Apple Day 2010 is the 21st anniversary of Apple Day - it is now celebrated by thousands at hundreds of events all run by local people - Common Ground initiated it with the hope it would become a calendar custom open to all to celebrate nature and culture symbolised by the apple - which began its life in the Tien Shan (the Heavenly Mountains - now China /Kazakh/Kirgyzs border) and over millennia wandered to these shores.	21 Oct	21 Oct	11 Oct
Trafalgar Day	21 Oct	21 Oct	11 Oct
October Plenty, London A harvest celebration held annually in Southwark.Plenty mixes ancient seasonal customs and theatre with contemporary festivity.	25 Oct	24 Oct TBC	30 Oct TBC
Punky Night On Punky Night in Hinton St George, Somerset, local children join a procession through the village streets, swinging their homemade lanterns and going house to house, singing traditional ‘punky’ songs and sometimes getting a few pennies at the front door.	29 Oct	28 Oct	27 Oct
British Summer Time Ends (daylight savings = clocks go back 1 hour) Greewich Mean Time Begins	25 Oct	31 Oct 2010	30 Oct
Hallowe'en Night	31 Oct	31 Oct	31 Oct

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