Yorkshire Day celebrated its fiftieth anniversary in spectacular style on 1st August 2025. Launched in 1975 by our old friends the Yorkshire Ridings Society, after fifty years the event continues to grow in size and its coverage year on year. This year saw major TV … Continue reading
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Historic County Flags Day 23rd July 2025
Historic County Flags Day 23rd July 2025 has been another spectacular celebration of our county heritage. Our thanks are due to Jim McMahon MP, Minister of State at the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government for once again displaying the county flags in Parliament … Continue reading

Save Our Spelthorne
A long-time sore for county lovers has been the inclusion of the Spelthorne area of Middlesex within the local government “county” of “Surrey”. Now a public consultation on Proposals for local government reorganisation in Surrey has been opened, with Surrey County Council set to be … Continue reading

Suffolk Day 21st June 2025
Suffolk Day is celebrated each Midsummer’s Day. The theme for 2025 was Celebrate the Sunrise County. This year the principal event, involving the Suffolk Day Proclamation and Suffolk Medal presentations, was held in Lowestoft. The annual Suffolk Remembers service was held on Felixstowe seafront in the … Continue reading

Sussex Day 16th June 2025
Sussex Day is celebrated on 16th June, the feast day of St Richard of Chichester, the county’s patron saint. This has become a huge annual event, one of the largest and most joyful of all county day celebrations. Huge thanks and congratulations are due to … Continue reading

Kent Day: Off the Beaten Track
Kent Day is celebrated on 26th May, the feast day of St Augustine. In celebration, we present a few of the county’s sometimes overlooked gems in Off the Beaten Track. Kent’s name derives from the Cantii, an ancient British tribe. Kent was a British kingdom before the … Continue reading

Middlesex Day 16th May 2025
Middlesex Day is celebrated each year on 16th May. This commemorates the actions of the 57th (West Middlesex Regiment) at the battle of Aluera (1811) during the Peninsula War. During the battle, Lieutenant-Colonel William Inglis, despite his injuries, refused to retire from the battle but … Continue reading

Somerset Day 2025
Somerset Day is celebrated each year on 11th May. It marks Alfred the Great’s call to arms and the gathering of ‘all the people of Somerset’ to march against the invading Viking army. Devised, planned and promoted by our friends at Passion for Somerset, over … Continue reading

Surrey Day: Secret Surrey
Saturday 10th May 2025 is Surrey Day, a day to celebrate the people, places, history and heritage of Surrey. In celebration we present some of the county’s often overlooked gems in Secret Surrey. Surrey is a relatively small county but heavily populated; in parts urban, … Continue reading

Staffs Day: Seven Wonders of Staffordshire
Staffordshire Day is celebrated on 1st May each year. The date was chosen since it is the date in 1759 on which Josiah Wedgewood founded the Wedgwood company in Burslem. In celebration we present our Seven Wonders of Staffordshire. Staffordshire is a county of contrasts. … Continue reading