scarlockculture

=**The Cultural Life in Scarlock**=

Scarlock has a wide cultural life. Each year there is held a festival in the summer called the “Padiwood Festival”. This is a tractor festival which first was held in 1996 started by some local farmers and tractor enthusiasts. The festival attracts people from all around Britain and since the start in 96 the festival has had an estimated visit count of nearly 4.5 million people. The festival can not only tempt with a huge range of different tractors but also good entertaining and a guarantee of a lot of fun. You can for example take part in events such as tractor pulling and each year there is bands performing, both local and international bands. The “Padiwood Festival” is known for attracting with artists such like [|the Band], [|Dolly Parton], [|Franz Ferdinand] and the Norwegian rock band [|Madrugada].

The famous inventor Alan Hickenbrough (1845-1903) was born in Scarlock and lived a long and peaceful life on his huge and productive farm. He ment a lot for the farming industry and while he lived, and his farm was on its most effectively, Scarlock was known in the whole U.K. for exporting of agriculture suplies of extremly good quality. Despite this Hickenbrough is best know as the inventor of a smart device that made the farming easier and much more effective, slowly forming the way of farming we know today. If you want to learn more about Hickenbrough and his work you could take a visit to the "Scarlock Museum of Agriculture". Here you can learn a lot about farming and how it was in the early days, including the history behind Hickenbrough's invention and a small exhibition of old farming and fishing equipment.

“Scarlock County Cricket Club” was founded in 1636 and is the city's own local cricket team. [|Cricket] has been the dominating sport in Scarlock since the sport got brought to the town back in the beginning of the 16th century. The team went from playing on an amateur level to playing professional in the beginning of the 18th century. "Scarlock County Cricket Club" has only won four championships during the decades, the first one known in 1821 and the others in 1901, 1991 and 1992. Currently the team are playing in third division.

Another common sport in Scarlock is chicken bowling. Chicken bowling is a sport similar to regular bowling, the difference is that instead of an ordinary bowling ball you use a chicken. Every Saturday a group of people get together to play chicken bowling, dance and have fun. The amusement switches from farm to farm each saturday, and the tradition is that the loser of the game helds the event on his farm next time. If the loser turns out to not to be a farmer there is a tradition that they draw between the farmers who of them are going to arrange the bowling next time. The first Saturday in every month there is held a little tournament in the city were everybody can participate, and there is a small prize for the winner.

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