 It was felt that, without the older pupils, they would be unable to stage the event and so the festival stopped for 5 years.In 1974, the festival was re-introduced by Elstow Lower School, albeit on a much smaller scale and with only young children, aged up to 9, using a much smaller maypole on the school's playing field, rather than on the green.The school managed to run this festival until 2000, when curriculum pressures forced them to stop.