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A Dying Custom
Like many another ancient custom or fete, the Lymm Rushbearing
festival is year by year showing less vitality.
Lymm Morris Dancers
The old custom is commemorated in this manner at present:- Between twnty
and thirty villagers rise in the small hours of Saturday morning, and
having donned fancy costumes, they divide into three parties and proceed
into the village, each from a different direction. A kind of morris
dance is executed by each party, and assistance is expected at each
house they stop at,. At nine o'clock the proceedings come to a close,
and the morris dancers divide the proceeds and depart to enjoy
themselves for the remainder of the day. Such was the ceremony that took
place in the village on Saturday and a stranger would certainly have
found it difficult to see the connection between it, and the old custom
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