The Furry Dance - Helston's Flora Day Celebration | 90s Documentary.

Explore this ancient British celebration of summer.
Delve into the history and folklore surrounding Flora Day and enjoy the spectacle, and the fashion, at the same time.
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Unfortunately, for the pagan origins of the Hal-an-Tow theory, the costumed enactment we see today was created in 1930 by the Helston Old Cornwall Society. Prior to that the song was part of a drunken perambulation of the town by the more unruly elements.