Is World Tin Bath Championships Britain’s quirkiest event?
CASTLETOWN’S World Tin Bath Championships have been shortlisted in a competition being run by a UK national magazine.
The Countryfile Magazine Awards for Britain’s quirkiest event 2012 feature the races, which take place annually in Castletown harbour attracting a large crowd of cheering spectators.
The tin bath races, which occur this year on July 7, are competing for the top spot with events from Derbyshire, Powys, County Tyrone, Devon and Norfolk, to list a few. These include such oddities as the snail racing contest from Congham, in July where a line up of athletic molluscs completes a 13-inch course set up on a kitchen table in the middle of a cricket pitch.
Stiff competition can also be expected from the World Toe Wrestling Championships held at Fenny Bently in Derbyshire, the Northern Ireland Bog Snorkelling Championships held in County Tyrone in Northern Ireland and the Fig Pie Wakes in which competitors hurl pies down a hillside in Cheshire.
Full details and an Awards voting form can be found on Countryfile Magazine’s website at www.countryfile.com/awardsvote , or you can email your votes to awards@countryfile.com . Voting closes on June 1, 2012.