I live at high green and i remember whitsuntide very clearly .I have got 4 sisters we all got new clothes all matching, it was the 70s, i remember we once got blue and white spotty dresses and a nylon tie coat mmmm even our mum had one , we all had different colours mine was red .we used to wait for the band to go past our house and then we would follow it with all the kids on our street,we would walk down the bottom of our village to our fields behind the scout hut were there would be a gala,it was fantastic we would be excited the night before.we didnt just get new clothes we got new underwear ,socks and shoes and ribbons for our hair.it is a lovely childhood memory when did people stop doing it?