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Survey of London
… Festival's main South Bank exhibition) as though round a maypole. 232 At the eastern end of the shops is the other …
Old and New London
… procession, at the head of which, of course, was borne the Maypole. After it came a band of young men, armed with the …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… which may still be seen. Until about thirty years ago a maypole stood behind the church on a plot of grass which …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… in the middle of October with great festivity; a maypole and morris-dancing are mentioned at Little Crosby, …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… spend the rest of the day and evening in dancing about a maypole adorned with greens, flowers, &c, or else in some …
Old and New London
… Church, and which in its turn gave place to the famous Maypole, thus alluded to in the "Dunciad," and of which we … the area wide they took their stand, Where the tall Maypole once o'erlook'd the Strand; But now, as Anne and … Bar to "a stone cross, now headless," over against the Maypole in the Strand, and along by Exeter Change and …
Old and New London
… the Strand, by which the roadway just to the west of the Maypole was carried over a brook. In the present century, …
Old and New London
… ran open, the streets were unpaved and unlighted, and a Maypole was still on the village green. It is not ten years …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… the paceeggers and their drama, the Eastertide lifting, maypole on the green, rush-bearing, &c. Lond. Gaz. 2 July …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… kept up till the old chapel was pulled down in 1777. 3 The maypole also was standing about that time, but falling down …