In Popular Culture
One explanation for the unique name of the Mops & Brooms public house in Well End, Borehamwood, Hertfordshire is that it commemorates mop and broomstick weddings which once took place there. (An alternative explanation, that the name commemorates the weaponry of choice in a fight between villagers and gypsy travellers, has also been put forward.)
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