Wow! That is just amazing! Many thanks for the links. I have never heard of this parade nor ever seen anything like it. I guess the closest we have to it in the United Kingdom, but not matching your parade, is the West Indian Carnival at Notting Hill in London (not that I have ever seen it, but I've seen the photos!)
I don't know if it is still done - I doubt it - but when my parents were young (early 1900s), many villages here in England had their small groups of Mummers who, I think, performed silent plays (mime) on Mid-summers Day. If it was not exactly that, it was something like it. I suspect the Mummers were, in some way, linked to the Morris Dancers who do still perform around the country in rural areas. Their traditions are very old indeed.
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