Scotland Feast at Sheffield

On the eve of Scotland Feast, kept every 29 May, the people of Scotland Street in Sheffield went out by night and brought back sixteen to twenty young trees, mostly birches from Walkley Bank, and planted them in rows down both sides of the street. By early morning the street looked like a grove, with branches on the doors, windows and inn signs and garlands of hoops, ribbons, gold leaf and silver tankards and watches strung across overhead. A small figure of King Charles II sat in the largest tree outside the chief alehouse, and the day went in dancing and drinking. The correspondent, signing Gulielmus, said it outshone every other district revel in the town.