Petertide

[hermanmunster]

Best wishes to all at Petertide.

[Guest55]

I have happy memories of getting a holiday for St Peter's day at primary school. Lots of churches having special celebrations and a lovely sunny day here

[hermanmunster]

Often a popular day for ordinations and hence nice anniversary celebrations

We never got Petertide off school but did have ascension and corpus christi.

[Tinkers]

DD never got St Peter's day off at primary, though they did have a St. Peter's day service.

I went to a St Michaels school and we had a service (the church was quite a walk away too) but no day off.

[Peridot]

Just found this about Petertide on Wikipedia. Hopefully this element of the celebration has disappeared now (although I can think of one or two of my neighbours I could nominate. Shame I don't live in Cornwall ).

"Around Penzance in west Cornwall, the period has long been celebrated by Midsummer bonfires and sometimes the burning of effigies of unpopular residents."