The Green Man had his followers out in force at Ilfracombe's May Day Celebrations and “Green Man” festivities on May Day.

The celebrations are held each year to invoke the spirit of summer and to bit farewell to winter.

Organiser of the event Garry Thompson says,

We make the sun come out every year! We defy the weather forecasters and the sun always shines on the May Day revellers, but the children were absolute stars and I think they were the ones who brought the sun out for us.

The Green Man wholeheartedly agrees.

And in, what can only be desribed as an enlightened move, Ilfracombe augments the Green Man festivities with a Beer Festival. Now this is my sort of town.

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