My grandparents, Edward and Rose Shone ran The Bulls Head pub for several years in the 1920s, when their daughter, Ada, my mother, used to play the organ in the church. My mother, and father Frank Cox, then ran it from about 1928 to1934, then selling it to a man named Ralph Edwards who lived nearby, who I understand started a wholesale wine and spirit business.
The maypole used to be erected outside here on 1st May and was taken down again on Wake Day 29th June.
Source: “Folklore of Warwickshire” by Roy Palmer
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My grandparents, Edward and Rose Shone ran The Bulls Head pub for several years in the 1920s, when their daughter, Ada, my mother, used to play the organ in the church. My mother, and father Frank Cox, then ran it from about 1928 to1934, then selling it to a man named Ralph Edwards who lived nearby, who I understand started a wholesale wine and spirit business.
The maypole used to be erected outside here on 1st May and was taken down again on Wake Day 29th June.
Source: “Folklore of Warwickshire” by Roy Palmer
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