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The girls of St Mary's Home would dance around their maypole waving long coloured ribbons, to entertain their guests at fêtes and bazaars. Once every year they held a traditional ceremony around their maypole, at which one of the girls would be proclaimed the 'Rose Queen'.
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Ref: WS98
Title: The Maypole girls at Cold Ash
Date: May 1902
Location: St Mary's Home for Girls, Cold Ash, Newbury, Berkshire
Creator: Unknown, taken from Our Waifs and Strays, August 1902, page 355

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The girls of St Mary's Home would dance around their maypole waving long coloured ribbons, to entertain their guests at fêtes and bazaars. Once every year they held a traditional ceremony around their maypole, at which one of the girls would be proclaimed the 'Rose Queen'.

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