Hi Muriel & Fellow Listers I come late to this party but for good reason. Firstly, I am only halfway through constructing the new kitchen (although we do now have a sink, oven & hob installed) and secondly, try as I might, I can recall no processions at Whitsuntide. At school we always assembled in the playground whilst the Union Flag was flown from the flagstaff on Empire Day. This was the only time that the maypole came into use as the girls danced around it using ropes as I remember rather than the traditional ribbons. May Day passed our community by! In any event it did not last long as all such celebrations soon gave way to the war when for a long time we spent more time in the shelters than in the playground. During those few years just before World War II, Whitsun was I believe, the occasion when the vicar invited the congregation and regular sunday school attendees to his equivalent of Her Majesty's Buckingham Palace Garden Party. His wife and he lived in a huge vicarage with an enormous back lawn on which tea was served. Blessed always with good weather (no doubt by arrangement) we sat meekly in family groups on the grass and waited for the first opportunity to escape. This event fell victim not to the machinations of Adolf Hitler but to lust! With the speed of a thousand gazelles the news raced around our estate ... the vicar had run off with the Sunday School supervisor! Wow! But processions, no. I suspect things might have been different for my parents though. My father, I know, was a member of the Church Lads Brigade and my mother belonged to the Band of Hope so it was odds on their being involved in any religious procession in Kilburn & Brondesbury around 1910 - 1914. Alas no photographs survive even if any were ever taken, so I can only speculate. But I remember about the Vicar! Len