4 May 2019
Children from the Dolphin School lead the May Day celebrations at the recently renovated St Edith's Well at Castle Park. The young people, carrying poseys made of spring flowers, placed them on the glass well cover and performed a merry dance around them. A story-teller related the history of St Edith, a holy woman who lived in Wilton, Wiltshire and of how the well provided the first fresh water for the City of Bristol from Saxon times. After H M Lord-Lieutenant Mrs Peaches Golding and the children cut a ribbon to officially open the Well, the Lord Mayor Cleo Lake made a brief speech. Bristol Morris performed seven or eight dances before the Green Man, clothed in green leaves, danced on the Well head, too.