Calstock is a village in Cornwall on the bank of the river Tamar. A May Day event – the choosing of the Rose Queen – has now been replaced with the procession through Calstock village of the Big Giant. This began about twenty five years ago when the Community Council re-enacted the legend of Tavy and Tamara and this annual event takes place on May Day with the residents of the village parading through the streets to a tune written at the time by William Coleman, which has now become a tradition
“Harrowbarrow bulldogs, Gunnislake tags
Little boys in Calstock, will beat them all to rags”

That is what they used to say, and there has always been rivalry between the villages, usually apparent on the sports field. The Giant walk is a chance for locals to dress up in colourful silly hats and other costumes!