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The Paganhill Maypole is maintained wholly from donations from local people and the fund raising activities of the committee of the Paganhill Maypole Society

 1919 WW1 Memorial Pole

Research has revealed almost no documentary information about this particular pole other than it was of larch timber and was 97 feet in length. There are no remaining minutes, if indeed they ever existed nor were there any of the usual reports in the local press. From contemporary photographs this maypole appeared to be a very slim and straight pole and, perhaps because of this, it had become so rotted that it had to be taken down on the 23rd July 1927, a life span of barely eight years.

It is reasonable to think that this pole was planned and erected to celebrate the end of the Great War in Europe.  

A group of workers after the successfully raising of the 1919 pole

Releasing the raising ropes from the pole