It's a ritual to welcome the start of the British summer - but this morning the sun was nowhere to be seen.
Morris dancers climbed a foggy Castle Hill in Huddersfield to dance at dawn this morning - but instead of watching the sun rise, they were enveloped in fog!
The White Rose Morris Men, of Huddersfield, and Thieving Magpie dancera, of Marsden, performed at 5.30am, upholding a Mayday Morris tradition believed to aid crop fertility in the summer months.
The dancers climb the historic hill every year on May 1, the day when British summertime and their busy summer season begins.
Last year the dancers enjoyed a beautiful sunrise as they performed - but this year they struggled to see each other in the thick mist.
Richard Fowler, the group's bagman - or secretary - said: ""It was very foggy.
"Some years we get the sunrise and it's beautiful but this morning it was just thick fog.
"There were two people walking their dogs who appeared on the scene, they were quite surprised!"
Richard, 63, admitted that the poor weather did spoil the ceremony but said 'it had to be done'.
"Nevertheless we had a good time," he added.
After their early morning outing, the troupes enjoyed a hearty breakfast at one of the dancers' houses in Golcar and are hoping for better weather next year.
The White Rose Morris Men, who celebrated their 60th anniversary last year, have members aged from as young as eight to dancers in their 60s.
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