The year before I watched a Maypole deep below the streets of London.

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This year I went to find one out in the open. It rained all the time I was holding an umbrella over the camera!

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They gathered in Queens Wood in Highgate erected the May Pole and celebrated Beltane in the rain.

Maypole-Highgate 1 |  Maypole-Highgate 2 

May Daunce Beltane, the return of the Sun

Hibla Maypole-Highgate Movie

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