This Is The Month Of Maying
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This Is The Month Of Maying ........
This May blossom along the Hempstead Road (A4251), from a Hawthorn hedge planted in the 1960's, may be seen as a splendid annual commemoration of a tradition, particularly strong in this area, whereby throughout the 19th century the young girls of the village would take a branch of may in the morning of the first day of May - May Day - and call in on the more well to do, singing a May Day song and asking for a few pence.
The custom died out when compulsory attendance at school was increasingly enforced and the event became institutionalised within school activities such as Maypole Dancing. Local pageants involving a May Queen and her attendants were a feature of early 20th century village life.
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This Is The Month Of Maying