Huge crowds gathered to watch the World Gravy Wrestling Championships on bank holiday Monday.
First staged in 2007, the international event saw around 1,500 litres of gravy poured into a ring at Bacup cricket club in Lancashire before contestants fought two-minute bouts in fancy dress.
Winners are chosen by a panel of four judges, who focus on wrestling skills and fancy dress costumes alongside crowd reaction.
Enough to supply 15,000 Sunday roasts, the gravy is made in The Real Lancashire Black Pudding Company’s factory, owned by Andrew Holt.
Mr Holt, whose gravy recipe was originally his grandmother’s, said the factory made three different thicknesses
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