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poliphilo ([personal profile] poliphilo) wrote2013-05-01 10:49 am

May Day



May Day celebrations at Chiseldon School, Wiltshire, 1934. Photograph by Fred C. Palmer

[identity profile] cmcmck.livejournal.com 2013-05-01 10:32 am (UTC)(link)
My last teaching post as deputy head in a country primary school was fun as there was an old maypole tradition dating back to the 1850's and I revived a lot more of the may traditions too.

Great post for an inveterate folkie, that one! :o)

[identity profile] poliphilo.livejournal.com 2013-05-01 12:28 pm (UTC)(link)
I was vicar of a church with a Rose Queen tradition. It got very political sometimes- with mothers campaigning and scheming and backbiting in order to get their daughters crowned.
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[identity profile] poliphilo.livejournal.com 2013-05-01 12:28 pm (UTC)(link)
One isn't surprised....