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Welcome.
This website celebrates Padstow, its people and their Obby Oss May Day tradition.
Enter the Archive
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Children's Oss, 1980
Our project is inspired by the incredible audio-visual collection of Doc Rowe, who first visited Padstow in 1963.
It has become Doc's life-long work dedicated to recording, collecting and preserving traditions such as Padstow's May Day.
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I welcome this opportunity to share material recorded over half a century. To create a permanent archive collection of audio and visual material in a celebration of local community history and cultural tradition.
Doc Rowe, 2025
My May Day
a stop motion animation film made by Padstow young people.
A Conversation with Maureen Tatlow
Interviewed by Karenza Lily May
Episode 1: Writing from the Inside
A personal, musical journey about May Day and the Cornish folk music scene and their evolution through time. (27 minutes)
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Thankyou to our funders
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