Urswick Rushbearing will be held on Sunday and Mia Sullivan will have the honour of being the village’s Rushbearing Queen.
Today the Evening Mail takes a look back through its photo archives to revisit Urswick Rushbearing services gone by.
Rushes from around the village tarn would be cut by villagers and used to cover the muddy floor at the Church of St Mary and St Michael. The used rushes would be removed, burnt and replaced once a year.
In 1905 Reverend Thomas Norman Postlethwaite instigated the rushbearing ceremony to commemorate this event and he wrote a special hymn for the service.
The procession starts from Low Furness CE Primary School.
Children and adults from the village carry rushes and flowers behind the rushbearing banner.
The procession takes place around the village with the Rushbearing Queen wearing crown made from rushes. She is presented with a white bound Bible and at church the children’s posies are laid on the altar and blessed.
At the end of the service, the children collect the flowers and place them on unattended old graves in the churchyard.
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