{"id":298,"date":"2008-05-22T21:37:51","date_gmt":"2008-05-22T21:37:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/?p=298"},"modified":"2008-05-22T21:37:51","modified_gmt":"2008-05-22T21:37:51","slug":"pratts-bottom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/?p=298","title":{"rendered":"Pratt’s Bottom"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s hard to resist a name like Pratt’s Bottom and I have to confess I didn’t try hard, and as soon as I heard the details it was etched in my diary. Pratt’s Bottom (or rather Pratts Bottom, as I notice they like to omit the apostrophe these days) is a village on the south-east outskirts of London, and notable particularly for its annual village fete<\/a> held each year in May.<\/p>\n

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\nLast year’s May Queen crowns the Pratt’s Bottom May Queen for 2008<\/em>
\nPart of the reason for its continuing vitality as a village is the Village Hall, where you can act, sing opera, play short mat bowls, train your dog, play badminton or with model trains as well as be a Brownie or join the WI, though if you get your nights mixed up the results could be surreal. It also has a very nice pub, the Bull’s Head, its very own village school with 47 pupils (a pre-school group also meets in the Village Hall) and – the real reason for my visit (although the pint of Theakstons was very welcome) its own May Queen.<\/p>\n

There are some drawbacks. Pratt’s Bottom is a longish journey from where I live and the nearest station only gets one train in each direction per hour. Due to a misunderstanding about the times I arrived rather late to find the procession had already left and found myself running over half a mile up a hill to catch up with it, getting to the village green where the fete was taking place more or less as it arrived.<\/p>\n

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It was also raining. Not particularly heavily, but steadily. Enough to sneak the odd drop onto the filter I’d just wiped and spoil the picture, though I’d tried hard to keep a cloth over it when not in use.<\/p>\n

So when I’d taken the pictures of the May Queen crowning, had a walk round all the stalls, had a couple of goes on Pratt’s Bottom’s Human Fruit machine and taken a look inside the Village Hall at the drive-it-yourself model railway (I resisted) there really wasn’t a lot to do other than join the Morris Men having a bit of a sing-song in the pub.<\/p>\n

\"Bull<\/p>\n

It is, after all, traditional.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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