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Welford and Weston Silver Jubilee 1977

Get out the flags and bunting and don't forget the tombola and ice cream it's time for a party as Silver Jubilee fever takes over the villages of Welford and Weston on Avon.

Documentary 1977 8 mins

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Overview

The Silver Jubilee is a good chance for Welford on Avon to show off its biggest feature: a full twenty feet of maypole. Looming over the village green this monster in red, white and blue dwarfs the children dancing beneath it but provides a fitting ending to a celebratory record of events one day in June 1977.