DAVID WRIGHT
PHOTOGRAPHY
FOLK TRADITIONS of the BRITISH ISLE
Wassailing
New Year's Day
Maldon, Essex
Planting an apple tree
in the orchard
Drinking the people's health
while singing the carols
Plough Monday - January
Good Easter, Essex
Blessing the plough
Singing the hymn for the plough
'Tying the knot'
Glastonbury Tor. Somerset
Tying the ribbons around the wrists of the couple
Pagan Handfasting
The circle around the couple
Pagan Handfasting
Jack o' Lent
Easter
Hastings, Sussex
Jack emerges and is
paraded around the town
One of the 'guardians'
of Jack
Palm Sunday
Easter
The procession to
the church door
Woking. Surrey. 2020
Seeking entrance
to the church
The Boundary Dance
Easter Saturday
Bacup, Lancashire
Britannia Coconutters
beginning the dance
Dancing the village boundary
Egg Rolling
Easter
Thornton in Craven
North Yorkshire
Beginning the egg race
Following the eggs to see
which one rolls the furthest
Beltane
Maldon, Essex
Sunrise
May Day
Maypole Dancing
Mayday
Long Preston, North Yorkshire
The Procession
The final throw
Corpus Christie Mystery Plays
June. York
Moving the cart
Piecing the side of
Jesus on the cross
Crough Patrick Pilgrimage
Reek Sunday, July
Mayo, Ireland
The shale
The last path
before the summit
The Horn Dance
Wakes Monday, September
Abbotts Bromley
The Peak District
Blessing the antlers
before the dance
Dancing for the Lord of the Manor
Rushcart
September
Saddleworth, Lancashire
Pulling the cart up
the hill to the church
Strewing the rushes
on the church floor
Sheep Racing. Masham, North Yorkshire
September
Running ahead of the sheep
Taking in the bets
Bishop Blaize
Inventor of the sheep comb
Masham. September
The Procession
Halloween
31st October
Nail man
Halloween Fancy Dress
Yorkshire
All Saints' Day
1st November
Sprinkling Holy Water
on the coffin
Bonfire Night
5th November
Fireworks in the garden
Essex. November 1976
The Guy
Remembrance Day
11th November
The silence
St. Andrews Church, Hornchurch. 1976
The Boxing Day Hunt
December
The Boxing Day Hunt
Gargrave, Yorkshire
Epiphany
January
Chalking the door
Yorkshire
Chimney Sweeps
Sweeping the chimney
The Chimney Sweep
Rochester Sweeps. 2018
Jumping the broom
