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Eynsham Morris Men in action this morning.
The 'side' have a set of their own traditional dances, have to live in the village and their outfits are based on 19th century ones, though the badge many of them wear on their sashes is of Bartholomew School in the village (which came into being in 1958).
Just before they started the stick dance:
A 'maiden' is selected from the audience, to be danced around:
and she is held aloft at the end:
I do have some bits of video from this morning, I will get to upload them to YouTube.