Folk Play Links - Buckinghamshire, 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.
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Country-Side Mood
[extract from comp. Richard Harman [sic], [1943], pp.202-208 - Chapter 'An Old Mummer at the Chequers, Wheeler End' - Wheeler End text - itself extract from
Sketches of the Bucks Countryside, by H. Harman + Photo of
Ditchling Mummers]
007 *
Country-Side Mood [sic]
[extract from comp. Richard Harman [sic], [1943], pp.202-208 - Chapter 'An Old Mummer at the Chequers, Wheeler End' - Wheeler End text - itself extract from
Sketches of the Bucks Countryside, by H. Harman]
008 *
Mummers
[index to
The Irish Book Lover, Vol.XXVII No.6, Feb. 1941, pp.270-272 - [extract from
Fifty Years Ago, by Walter Rose, n.d.] - Archived]
009 *
Oxfordshire Christmas Miracle Play
[by Frederick George Lee, in
Notes and Queries, 5th Ser. Vol.II No.52, 26th Dec. 1874, pp.503-505 - (Thame text;) at Brill House, Brill; (at Thame Park, Thame)]
013 *
RootsWeb : An Old Christmas Custom
[Genealogical query from Keith Chandler about Mummers from Boarstall, Quainton - two of James Madison Carpenter's informants, Steeple Claydon, Wheeler End, and Worminghall - two of James Madison Carpenter's informants]
014 *
Strange Britain
[Photo of Beaconsfield Mummers, about 1950. Beaconsfield text, allegedly composed by G.K. Chesterton]
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