WE asked readers to send us pictures of this year's Allendale Tar Bar'ls. Here's a selection from what you sent.
The Tar Bar'ls celebration is a traditional village festival, held annually on New Year's Eve in the Tynedale village, and has been organised for more than 160 years.
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In the customary tradition, the group of 'guisers', 45 local men, carry whiskey barrels filled with burning hot tar through a procession, wearing fancy dress.
To become a guiser, men must have been born in the Allen Valleys.
Past 'characters' have included Oompa Loompas and Donald Trumps, Storm Troopers, the cast of Dad's Army and Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.
The guisers parade around the Market Square carrying flaming barrels, while hundreds of spectators look on.
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Barrels are filled with sticks and wood shavings on a bed of sawdust, to prevent the paraffin from leaking out.
At 11.30pm on New Years' Eve, the torches are lit and the barrels ignited.
Each guiser lifts the flaming barrels up on to the top of their heads and falls in behind the band.
Jonathan Atkinson shared this picture.
At midnight, they arrive at the pre-built bonfire in the town centre.
The barrels are then used to ignite this ceremonial bonfire, while everyone shouts: "Be damned to he who throws last."
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