Description: The Whit Sunday Procession in Brimington, showing Darkin's fish and chip shop and Mordue's undertaker's in the background. The Christian festival of Whitsuntide, also known as Pentecost, remembers how God sent the Holy Spirit down to the Disciples, resting on them as tongues of fire, 50 days after Jesus ascended into Heaven. This traditionally marked the birth of the Christian Church.