Flower Boat Is Held High for Ancient May Festival ; Everyone Is Familiar with Padstow Obby Oss and Helston Flora, but There Is Another Cornish May Day Celebration with a Long and Fascinating History. Caitie Parrott Reports On a New Book About the Black Prince Festival [Edition 2]

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AROUND May Day each year Millbrook, Kingsand and Cawsand are bursting with music, dancing and traditional Cornish town criers when the Black Prince Flower Boat Procession takes to their streets.

To celebrate and mark its ever-growing success, a new book researched and written by Black Prince archivist Jan Gendall and published in aid of the RNLI, will be published this week.

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Flower Boat Is Held High for Ancient May Festival ; Everyone Is Familiar with Padstow Obby Oss and Helston Flora, but There Is Another Cornish May Day Celebration with a Long and Fascinating History. Caitie Parrott Reports On a New Book About the Black Prince Festival [Edition 2]

After many years working for the event, this year's procession will represent the end of an era for Mrs Gendall, of Menhe...

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