Hundreds cheer as a runner with Fry Pans race for the Pancake Day

London (AP) – racing drivers who were dressed as skyscrapers, beekeepers and drawer box belonged to dozens of runners in crazy costumes, which are roaring around a Central London Square with a pan in the hand to celebrate on Tuesday, or “Pancake Day”.

Hundreds of people packed in Guildhall Yard and as participants in the annual Pancake race between Livery ran for the square while they threw pancakes into their frying pans.

The spectacle was one of many pancake races throughout the UK to mark the Christian period of repentance and victim before Easter the day before the beginning of Lent. The name Semove Tuesday is celebrated as a Mardi grass or fat on Tuesday in other parts of the world, and results from the English word, that means looking for forgiveness or getting an absolution.

The teams between Livery races showed the costume or traditional robe that represent their painting companies and historical guilds or trade associations that have existed in London for almost 1,000 years.

The company of shooters fired the starting pistol, the watchmakers showed the races, while the “Fruchter” provided the lemons to take over the pancakes for the sale of grandstands on the square.

The winners receive a trophy and a pan.