Past Home Page Pictures
The Okalolies of Tristan da Cunha, Old Year's Night 2006/07.
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Photo by Janice Hentley
Antrobus Horse and Driver 2004
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Photo by Duncan Broomhead.
Fylingdales Guizers, Dec.2005
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Making good use of veils and old neck ties. Photo by Doc Rowe
Wolfville Mummers Troupe, Nova Scotia, Canada
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Acting a play in the Newfoundland tradition, New Year's Eve 2004. Photo by Alan Slipp
Sidmouth Mumming Play with Lord Nelson, July 2005
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Photo by Duncan Broomhead.
North Curry Mummers, Somerset, England
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Photo by David Lawrence, Christmas 2004
Pace Eggers at the Fountain, Dent, Cumbria, England
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Undated photograph, possibly 1920s, courtesy of Stuart Manger
Christmas Mumming in the Summer Sun, Auckland, New Zealand
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Green Man Mummers' children's workshop. Photo by Margaret Pye
The Horse of the Halton Soulers 2002
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Photo by Duncan Broomhead.
Midgley Pace Eggers at the bus terminus 2004
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Photo by Duncan Broomhead.
Ripon Sword Dancers, Boxing Day 2002
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Photo by Heather Hazell
Courtesy of Chas Marshall's website.
D.H.Lawrence's A Prelude
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Guysers making up from D.H.Lawrence's short story An Enjoyable Christmas: A Prelude (1907)
Reprinted in Traditional Drama Forum, No.8.
Bampton Mummers
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Photo from the James Madison Carpenter Collection.
Its online catalogue is reviewed in Traditional Drama Forum, No.7.
Bury Pace Eggers' collector in traditional costume
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Photo by Catherine Pearce
See our Special Bury Gallery for more pictures.
Who is the guy on the left?
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For a bigger image and a surprise answer, see our article in Traditional Drama Forum, No.6.
Comberbach Soulcakers, Cheshire, England.
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See our Gallery of Cheshire folk plays for a larger image, and their website at www.soulcakers.com/.
Photo by Duncan Broomhead.
Aughakillymaude Community Mummers, Co. Fermanagh
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A visit by the group to Cheshire is described with pictures in Traditional Drama Forum, No.5.
Photo by Pat Lunny.
Costumes from Cropwell, Nottinghamshire, 1893.
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Front and back of one of the oldest known English folk play costumes.
For further information see Traditional Drama Forum, No.4.
The Mummers of Drinagh, Wexford
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Performing at the Fleadh Cheoil na h'Eireann, Enniscorthy 2000.
Photo by kind permission of wexford-online.com, from an article by Paddy Berry in "Treoir".
The Pace Eggers of Midgley, West Yorkshire, Easter 2001
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Photo by John Frearson - More pictures.
The Marshfield Paper Boys, Gloucesterhire
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Photo by kind permission of the History Hunters website.
Cast of the Plough Play from Calverton, Notts., 1994
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Back row (left to right): Musician, Ribonner, Lady Bright and Gay, Hopper Joe/Sankey Benny, Farmer's Man, Dame Jane, Bold Tom, Doctor, Recruiting Sergeant. Kneeling (Left to right): Beelzebub, Threshing Blade.
Photo by Peter Millington
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