CUSTOMS AND TRADITIONS IN GREAT BRITAIN

 Englishmen are proud of their traditions and carefully keep them up. 

There are only six public holidays a year in Great Britain, the days, on which people need not go to work.

In England the New Year is not so widely celebrated as Christmas.

One of the popular ways of celebrating New Year is to go to New Year dance.

On February the 14th is St. Valentine’s Day when

is a time of giving presents, and the Easter eggs is the most popular emblem of this holiday.

Remembrance Day (Poppy Day) is celebrated throughout Britain in commemoration of the million or more soldiers, sailors and airmen who lost their lives during the