Transcription: May Day celebrations at Rochester in Kent began at dawn as black-faced Morris dancers launched the City Sweeps Festival by awakening in their own way the Jack in the Green symbolising spring on Bluebell Hill as the sun rose. The 12 fires, that was in the 12 months of the year, and so it's all to do with renewal of the fertility of the ground really. And how long has it been going on? That is one of the questions that nobody really knows. and thousands and thousands of years.
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