All's well that ends well!

AS WE enter autumn, readers might well be recalling some of the uplifting local events they have enjoyed over the spring and summer.

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Perhaps you patronised the Etruria Canals Festival, the Betley Show or the Chartist Festival in Burslem. However, one other annual event has a glorious pedigree.

The 181st Endon well dressing took place back in May, and though I was unable to attend this year, I’ve attended in the past and regard the event as a wonderful social equaliser and a vibrant community event.

It is to Endon what the Killer Mile is to Mow Cop, the Horn Dance is to Abbots Bromley and Shrovetide football is to Ashbourne - though it may be said to be a little more sedate. Put it another way. A E Bagguley’s little book on the history of the event (circa 1980) asseverated that: “Endon without its well dressing would be like Wimbledon without its tennis or Wembley without its Cup Final.”