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Offline genjen

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Re: Any Mummers Here?
« Reply #18 on: Sunday 14 December 08 10:11 GMT (UK) »
Which side do you dance with?
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ESS: Howe French Cant Annis Noakes Turner Marshall Makerow Duck Spurden Harmony
SCT: Howe Shaw Raitt Milne Forsyth Birnie Crichton Duncan McBeath Daniel Hay Robertson Jaffrey Smith McDonald Alexander Craighead
NRY: Bushby Smith Bland Iley Cunion Kendrew Thornbury Favell Lonsdale Crossland Rudd Pratt Gibson
WES; Dickenson Jackson Ewbank Waller
STS: White
SRY: Knight
DUR: Smith Littlefair
HAM: Williams Grose Lush Venson

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Re: Any Mummers Here?
« Reply #19 on: Sunday 14 December 08 10:25 GMT (UK) »
The Rose and Castle....Cloggies from Northampton, though the army has really done in my dancing out for a few years...I still call for Barn Dances when I can though...

I'll find a pic...
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Re: Any Mummers Here?
« Reply #20 on: Sunday 14 December 08 11:24 GMT (UK) »
I do know some of Rose and Castle - have done drinking with one of your musicians!  ;D
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ESS: Howe French Cant Annis Noakes Turner Marshall Makerow Duck Spurden Harmony
SCT: Howe Shaw Raitt Milne Forsyth Birnie Crichton Duncan McBeath Daniel Hay Robertson Jaffrey Smith McDonald Alexander Craighead
NRY: Bushby Smith Bland Iley Cunion Kendrew Thornbury Favell Lonsdale Crossland Rudd Pratt Gibson
WES; Dickenson Jackson Ewbank Waller
STS: White
SRY: Knight
DUR: Smith Littlefair
HAM: Williams Grose Lush Venson

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Re: Any Mummers Here?
« Reply #21 on: Sunday 14 December 08 12:12 GMT (UK) »
I expect that will be Clive then! The fiddle player...


But PLEASE do NOT confuse us with that so called Morris side Wriggly Head...
One more charge and then be dumb,
            When the forts of Folly fall,
        May the victors when they come
            Find my body near the wall.

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Re: Any Mummers Here?
« Reply #22 on: Sunday 14 December 08 12:22 GMT (UK) »
Quote from: scrimnet on Sunday 14 December 08 12:12 GMT (UK)
I expect that will be Clive then! The fiddle player...


But PLEASE do NOT confuse us with that so called Morris side Wriggly Head...

No -it's a female musician.

Wrigley Head???? Do I know them?
All Census Look Ups Are Crown Copyright from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk

ESS: Howe French Cant Annis Noakes Turner Marshall Makerow Duck Spurden Harmony
SCT: Howe Shaw Raitt Milne Forsyth Birnie Crichton Duncan McBeath Daniel Hay Robertson Jaffrey Smith McDonald Alexander Craighead
NRY: Bushby Smith Bland Iley Cunion Kendrew Thornbury Favell Lonsdale Crossland Rudd Pratt Gibson
WES; Dickenson Jackson Ewbank Waller
STS: White
SRY: Knight
DUR: Smith Littlefair
HAM: Williams Grose Lush Venson

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Re: Any Mummers Here?
« Reply #23 on: Sunday 14 December 08 14:29 GMT (UK) »
"half the cast being in their teens and the other half just a little bit older - fifties to seventies to be precise."   Thanks for the 'little bit older', genjen.  If I were there I'd be in that group.    ;D ;D

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Re: Any Mummers Here?
« Reply #24 on: Sunday 14 December 08 16:17 GMT (UK) »
Just to clarify, mummers are not always Morrismen.
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« Reply #25 on: Sunday 14 December 08 16:26 GMT (UK) »
Indeed we did Mummers plays at school, but...It is generally The Morris that keeps the tradition alive
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« Reply #26 on: Sunday 14 December 08 16:38 GMT (UK) »
That may well be so, but it would be wrong to give the impression that it's exclusively the case.  The group that performs locally to me is not a Morris group, and neither is another that I know of.
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