"German straw bears tell me more please."
Noreen's link gives the background, but what's not been mentioned by way of explanation is that the Waldurn Straw Bear and entourage usually come over to visit for Whittlesea Straw Bear day. For some reason they didn't come this year, or at least I didn't see them.

Also as well as Handsome Molly in New York, (one of whose members is incidentally an honorary member of Pig Dyke Molly), there is Wolf At The Door Molly, the first molly team in Canada, in Cambridge, Ontario.