Seen loads of Morris dancers, that’s a pretty healthy tradition. Fewer maypoles but they do still exist on various village greens.

I actually asked this on Twitter once, to mixed responses (about 50/50 yes/no), but our school definitely had a Maypole and we did the dances. I liked it. There are some permanent Maypoles around the country, but it's obviously a dying tradition. And yeah, seen lots of Morris.

We also had maypoles. Carnage usually ensued as primary school children got each other tangled up in the ribbons.

upper class "reformers" and industrialists installed maypoles in school and encouraged "traditional May Day" activities (despite the fact that the Puritans hated that shit). anyway, after the Haymarket affair, the industrialists won the spin war. www.americanhistory.si.edu/explore/stor...

They want maypoles and village fêtes but not one of those arses would volunteer to help out in any shape or form. They'd just roll up, get pissed and shout at the tombola.

For the early May bank holiday, this is easy, I think- encourage traditional May Day celebrations. Maypoles, May royalty, morris dancing, picnics. Maybe introduce a Fancy Sandwich element to support the picnic idea.

I think maybe we should dance around different maypoles this year

Maypoles out in the country.

Sick and tired of people discarding their maypoles wherever they feel like it

Leave maypoles alone, but they can have Christmas puddings.