Folk Play Links - Berkshire, England

Compiled by Chris Little



Groups listed may be folk club, morris dance or amateur drama groups, as well as traditional performers. Publications listed may be cited, extracted or summarised publications, as well as full text.


Groups

001 * Aldworth Millenium Tapestry [The Bell Inn - Aldworth's Mummers described but not represented]
002 * Cold Ash Mummers [photos; programme; script]
003 * Datchet Border Morris
004 * Ellington Morris [photos; script]
005 * Hummers Mummers / Hurst Morris People

Publications

006 * A Berkshire Christmas [extract from comp. David Green, 1994, pp.35-45 - Hoe Benham text from Berkshire Record Office]
007 * A Book of the Country and the Garden [US edition] [by H.M. Batson, 1903, pp.258-270 - Hoe Benham text]
008 * A Glossary of Berkshire Words and Phrases [by Major B. Lowsley, 1888, pp.17-21 - [Hampstead Norreys ?] mid-Berkshire text; 21-22 - Compton fragment; 22 - at Steventon & at Brightwalton [sic]; 114 - entry for 'Mummers']
009 * Jenkyn, Little John, &c [by Constance Russell, in Notes and Queries, 10th Ser. Vol.V No.113, 24th Feb. 1906, p.155 - [extract from The Nursery Rhymes of England, ed. by James Orchard Halliwell, 1842, p.136;] at Swallowfield]
010 * Old Berkshire' Mummers' Plays [citation of Malcolm Bee, in Oxfordshire Local History, Vol.2 No.1, 1984]
011 * Old English Customs Extant at the Present Time [by P.H. Ditchfield [Rector of Barkham], 1896, pp.9-12 + 310-315 - [at Barkham] & paraphrasing A Glossary of Berkshire Words and Phrases, by Major B. Lowsley, 1888, pp.17-22; (12-15 - Stoke Gabriel fragment;) 315-316, viii - at Brightwalton; (316-320, viii - Islip text from Percy Manning Collection; 320-326 - Bampton text)]
012 * Old English Sports , Pastimes , Customs [by P.H. Ditchfield [Rector of Barkham], 1891, p.124 - paraphrasing A Glossary of Berkshire Words and Phrases, by Major B. Lowsley, 1888, pp.17-22 - at Barkham too?]
013 * Pages from a Private Diary [New edition] [by [Urbanus Sylvan [Henry Charles Beeching]], 1903, p.163 - 26th Dec. 1896 - [Yattendon] fragment]
014 * Reminiscences [by Goldwin Smith, ed. by Arnold Haultain, 1910, p.7 - at Reading]
015 * Swallowfield and its Owners [by Lady [Constance] Russell, 1901, pp.335-337 - text]
016 * The Life and Adventures of George Augustus Sala [US edition] [by himself, 1895, Vol.I pp.373, 369 - "mummers" (carollers ?) at Upton Court, Upton from Slough in 1861]
017 * The Parish Clerk [by P.H. Ditchfield, 1907, p.331 - Mumming Play at Barkham [where he is Rector]]
018 * Vanishing England [by P.H. Ditchfield, 1910, p.376]
019 * Wiltshire County Council : Community History : Folk Arts : Biography [Shadrach Haydon from whom Hatford text was collected]
020 * Wiltshire Record Office [Ref. 2598/36] [Alfred Williams Collection - Hatford text]

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