Entries from Londonist tagged with 'marketporter'
April 29, 2008
Come spring, come 1st May, come rough music and the Jack-in-the-Green: a leaf wearing London folk custom, with entourage, on a pub crawl. The Jack-in-the-Green evolved in the seventeenth century from milk maids in huge hats and garlands parading the street for money to a man dressed as a giant hedge, the Jack, roaming the street on May Day on the scrounge for beer money. Fowlers Troop revived the Deptford Jack-in-the-Green tradition in the......
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