Lammas Day
... was celebrated in the little Sussex village of Elsted on the evening of July 30. Members of the West Sussex Y.F.C., led by the Rector, walked to a cornfield, where the simple ceremony of blessing the loaf and the first sheaf of corn took place. The scene, with the farm wagon in the foreground, the ripe wheatfield, the South Downs glorious in the sunshine, and the eager young people joining in ...