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Victoria Harrison's avatar

So glad you found it useful! I love digging into all the old traditions 💫 The wheel of the year is brilliant as you get a new festival to celebrate every 6 weeks! ☺️

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Jane Turner's avatar

In 2000 I started working in a school in Cambridge, in the city. The small infant school was built in 1933 and closed down for good in 2003. They had their own maypole and a tradition of crowning a May Queen. I was 28 and had never had anything like this in my childhood. We learned all the dances ( I think 2-3 different ones) and joined in with the children with parents watching. Also invited were previous May queens and pupils, some of whom could remember doing it as far back as the 1930s. It was such fun. I always wonder what became of the school maypole.

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