Look out for a Tall Green Man in the City on May Day

Tomorrow is May Day, and each year the Fowlers Troop recreate the Deptford Jack parade in a different part of London. This year, it’s the turn of the City to witness a walking mound of greenery parade through it’s stone…

Mummers, Maypoles and Milkmaids

An exhibition and a book all rolled into one – and the exhibition is basically excerpts from the book, so if feeling frugal, the exhibition is a cut-down version of the book to save you buying it. Book author and…

May 2011 – The Deptford Jack visits Greenwich

If you are in Greenwich this May Day, then you might spy a 10 foot tall tower of garlands and greenery walking slowly around the town while dancers cavort around it. This is the revival of the old Jack in…

The Fowlers Troop Jack in the Green

On May Day, the Blackheath Morris Men parade around parts of South-East London in a revival of an old Jack in the Green tradition. According to the ubiquitous Wikipedia, The tradition dates back to around the 16th and 17th centuries,…