{"id":17954,"date":"2025-09-23T09:01:00","date_gmt":"2025-09-23T08:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/?p=17954"},"modified":"2025-09-20T10:15:33","modified_gmt":"2025-09-20T09:15:33","slug":"autumn-equinox-the-druid-order-primrose-hill-2007","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/?p=17954","title":{"rendered":"Autumn Equinox: The Druid Order, Primrose Hill – 2007"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Autumn Equinox: The Druid Order<\/strong>: The Autumn Equinox was on September 23 in 2007, and as usual The Druid Order celebrated in with their ritual on Primrose Hill and I went to photograph it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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My photographs show the event from the preparations including a brief practice for a few on the hill top in normal clothing, and then their robing and preparation for the march up the hill and the various stages of the ceremony.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I had another event to attend elsewhere and had to rush off before they ended the event with a procession back down the hill, which I did photograph in other years. But I was on my way to a guided walk around ‘London Street Women’, statues on the streets of the City – you can also see pictures of them on My London Diary<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In this post I’ll stick with the Druids. I photographed The Druid Order both in the autumn at Primrose Hill and at Tower Hill for the Spring Equinox on quite a few occasions and in some I give a fairly detailed account of their history (they began early last century) and the more ancient traditions as well as of the various stages in the ceremonies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Back in September 2007 my account was rather brief but earlier in the year I had written captions to the pictures of the similar Spring celebration<\/a> which explained what I thought was happening at each stage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Here is the piece I posted on the September 2007 page with the usual minor corrections:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Druid Order has three public ceremonies each year, celebrating the Spring Equinox at Tower Hill, Summer Solstice at Stonehenge and Autumn Equinox (Alban Elued) at Primrose Hill.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I got there rather early, and found quite a few people enjoying the hill in their own way – including those who were running up it as well as others merely enjoying the panoramic view over london, as well as a group of half a dozen people in normal clothes practising a simple ritual of Peace To The Four Corners.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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At least this told me I was in the right place, and I soon spotted a larger group gathering in under the trees a short distance away.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The ceremony followed the same pattern as in the spring, with a few minor differences.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I did have a small surprise, when i came across a rival druid, Jay The Taylor, the Druid of Wormwood Scrubs, part of the Loose Association Of Druids, who had come to celebrate the event in the Hawthorn Grove (not a feature marked on my map) and seemed surprised to see the other druids.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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There are around 80 pictures from Primrose Hill on My London Diary, presented there in the order in which I took them, at Autumn Equinox – The Druid Order<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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