See a green man parade through Deptford and Greenwich
On May Day — aka, Wed 1st May — a tall green man will walk around parts of South London.The Fowlers Troop Jack in the Green was revived by members of Blackheath Morris Men and friends in the early 1980s. It is a revival of a Jack in the Green from about 1906 which was taken out around Deptford, South East London on May Day by the original Fowlers Troop.
No one actually seems to be entirely sure what the Jack in the Green was, or how long the tradition of parading a decorated “w
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