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Beating the Bounds ceremony, St Michaels Church, Cornmarket Street, Oxford, Oxfordshire, 1914. Artist: Henry Taunt

Beating the Bounds ceremony, St Michaels Church, Cornmarket Street, Oxford, Oxfordshire, 1914. Artist: Henry Taunt

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Beating the Bounds ceremony, St Michaels Church, Cornmarket Street, Oxford, Oxfordshire, 1914. A group of children with a vicar and schoolmaster, holding willow sticks as part of the Beating the Bounds ceremony that takes place on Ascension Day, derived from the earlier ceremony of Rogationtide.

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