 It is, in fact, now much closer in its character to those May Fairs that provided the inspiration for John Bunyan's ‘Vanity Fayre’ in "The Pilgrim’s Progress".The festival still includes the old coach conveying the May Queen in procession from the former school buildings, down High Street to Elstow green.Children from Elstow Lower school carry out a few maypole dances but there are far fewer children involved than in the 20th century and there are no jesters, heralds, ‘doves’ or decorated boughs.