Why do marching maids hold up Bristol's traffic?
Why do schoolgirls throw chrysanthemums at a statue?
What are ''Tuppeny Starvers'' and why are they given to school-children every Easter?
Why is the vicar of England's most famous parish church peering down a manhole?
What are captains of industry doing dressing up in Elizabethan costume and drinking from a loving cup?
Why does Lord Mayor tread over a carpet of freshly-picked rushes each Whitsun?
Journalist and broadcaster Maurice Fells provides the answer to these and many other intriguing questions in The Bristol Year, a charming, illustrated almanac of Bristol's rich and eccentric heritage of customs and ceremonies which take place in the city each year, some modern, and some dating back five centuries.