Whitsun

These three brethren told casual acquaintance that they were spending their Whitsun holidays in a walking tour through the Vale of Blackmoor, their course being southwesterly from the town of Shaston on the north-east.

It was an important-looking village, with a fine old church and large churchyard in the heart of it, and two or three large brick-and-stone homesteads, with well-walled orchards and ornamental weathercocks, standing close upon the road, and lifting more imposing fronts than the rectory, which peeped from among the trees on the other side of the churchyard:--a village which showed at once the summits of its social life, and told the practised eye that there was no great park and manor-house in the vicinity, but that there were several chiefs in Raveloe who could farm badly quite at their ease, drawing enough money from their bad farming, in those war times, to live in a rollicking fashion, and keep a jolly Christmas, Whitsun, and Easter tide.

Brand New - The New Dragon Slide is opening for the Whitsun Holidays, which will give you the chance to take on our exciting tubby slope - taking on the banked corners and stretches in a tubby ring.

Over the Whitsun Bank Holiday weekend, colleagues at all of Blakemore Retail's 280 Spar stores across England and Wales took part in the NSPCC's Wild West Weekend, to support the Wild West Web campaign about keeping children safe online.

CONWAY proved to be a happy place for Bebington as they followed on from previous successes to finish Top Club at the Whitsun meet.

HOW many of us still refer to the forthcoming Bank Holiday as Whitsun? Given it was moved in 1971 to the last Monday in May, you'd think we'd be used to it by now!

Which British poet authored the volumes The Whitsun Weddings and High Windows?

In her interview with Corriere, Bartoli, who became artistic director of the Salzburg Whitsun Festival in 2012, also spoke about the lack of women in orchestras.

WHIT Friday, meaning White Friday, is the name given to the first Friday after Pentecost or Whitsun.

With another week off for May Bank Holiday and 10 days at Whitsun. Then they'll only clock on for 27 days in the entire summer (June 1-September 5), after they were given an extra seven days leave for the EU referendum.

Liverpool Sound City 2016 May 28-29 Brit Award winners Catfish and the Bottlemen and local heroes The Coral, playing their first home show for five years, will headline this Merseyside festival over Whitsun weekend.

Who wrote the 32-poem collection entitled The Whitsun Weddings?