Clipping the Church - Painswick, Gloucestershire
Clipping the Church - Painswick, Gloucestershire. Annual ceremony on the third Sunday in September. This picture shows the Painswick Silver band leading the procession around the churchyard withs its 99 yews. Afterwards the village children link hands round the church; this being the process of clipping (meaning embracing in the Shakespearian sense)
Picture No
10511681
Media ID
45191027
Size
4965px x 3726px
(2.0MB)
Credit
Mary Evans Picture Library/Douglas Dickins
Source
Photograph by Douglas Dickins
Date
circa 1950
