The Wychnor flitch ..

[Swifty]

I lived for most of the 80's in a small hamlet called Wychnor in Staffordshire ..

My Dad was always into preserving history and learned that a wooden carving of a flitch of bacon had been discovered mouldering away in a shed behind Wychnor Hall .. this carved bit of wood symbolised an English tradition where as a Lord would grant a real flitch of bacon to a couple who'd been married for a year and a day without arguing or fighting ..

The carving my Dad found was restored and now hangs over the fireplace at Wychnor Hall. I'd always assumed it was just a Wychnor tradition but apparently this gifting flitch's of bacon to the worthy happened in a few locations around England ..

https://lichfieldlore.co.uk/2011/04/28/the-wychnor-flitch/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flitch_of_bacon_custom

 

[Mythopoeika]

Dunmow is probably the most famous example.

 

[JamesWhitehead]

I remember seeing Made in Heaven, the 1952 film, mentioned on the Wikipedia page above.

Dunmow was the setting for that edge-of-seat flitch hilarity! I remembered that David Tomlinson starred but I had forgotten Petula Clark was the wife. I see that a Hungarian maid was the paprika in the pot . . .

 

[Swifty]

Dunmow is probably the most famous example.

Ta .. I'll look that place up.

edit: a link to it .. I'll read that later.

http://www.dunmowflitchtrials.co.uk/