On Easter Saturday, on the streets of Bacup in Lancashire, you can see one of the most exotic and bizarre of English traditions. The Britannia Coconut Dancers - known locally as ‘Nutters’ - wear white skirt and turban, knee breeches, stockings and clogs, and blacken their faces. As they dance through the streets of the town to the accompaniment of a brass band they strike together the ‘coconuts’ - small round blocks of wood strapped to their knees, waist and hands. Similar teams once existed in other Lancashire mill towns, but the tune played here is all that remains of the Rochdale tradition.