YouTube https://youtu.be/4tYeQ7q6J3A The Midsummer Eve bonfire (Tansys Golowan). The ancient custom of pagan firelighting on the longest day, believed to be thousands of years old, was revived by the Old Cornwall movement in 1929. Many years ago the date was moved from the Summer Solstice to St John’s Eve to fit in better with the church calendar. This ceremony on Carnstabba Hill near Halsetown was preceded by song from Vaughan Bennett and Toni Carver and Cornish prayers. After St Ives Mayor Joh