A time when chimney sweeps danced through neighbouring villages and children carried a maypole round the big houses in the parish were remembered by two old people in conversations with a retired teacher, Miss L Wood, more than 80 years ago.We don't know much about Miss Wood except that she lived at Ashley, Town Row, Rotherfield, and that she was closely associated with the historical Rotherfield pageant of 1923.Her notes of the memories which she collected were edited by Miss Muriel Lees. She...
