Nottingham Evening News (1945)
Source:
[Anon.] (Auth.)
Newsman's Notebook: PLOUGH MONDAY
Nottingham Evening News,
15th Jan.1945, No.18435, pp.2g-h
"The first Monday following Twelfth Day, which this year
falls today, had from time immemorial been known as Plough
or Plow Monday. In agricultural districts it still is regarded
as marking the end of the land workers' Christmas holiday and
the traditional opening of the plough season of the New Year.
Formerly the anniversary was celebrated by a ceremony known as
'Blessing the Plough' conducted over an implement taken into the
village church. This was followed by a procession of ploughmen
and farm labourers who hauled a plough from door to door in the
parish and collected contributions for rustic festivities,
merry-making, and refreshment which were enjoyed until late at
night. A few years ago the custom was revived in some parts of
Nottinghamshire and might have been continued had not the war
intervened."
Index Terms:
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Notts.
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Publ. 1945
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| Subjects: |
Plough Monday; Plow Monday; Blessing the Plough; Plough Blessing
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| Archives: |
TDRG Archive, Ref. TD00101;
T.Bailey Forman Library, "Plough Monday" file
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Last Updated Jun 2005 by Idwal Jones.
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