Despite a covering of cloud the sun cast mauve colours

and then appeared burning bronze on May Day in Abingdon – seen here near Abingdon Lock.

The May Day celebrations in Oxford were without the Abingdon Morris Dancers, but some of their members were there with the Oxford teams.

The Oxford Morris are led on May Day morning by Jack-in-the-Green, who appears only on May Morning after the Magdalen College Choir sing from the tower.