REVELLERS at the Dolphin Inn blessed the apple trees and used pots, pans, drums, whistles and bells to scare off the Maulscrawl spirits at Wellington Wassail.

It was Wellington Folk & Custom Society’s sixth year of rekindling the custom on the old Twelfth Night.

Pictured are Maggie, Emily and Frances Brice, and Jenny Francis. PHOTO: Alain Lockyer