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.

001 - 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]
002 - Buckinghamshire Photographs [image archive] [Photo of Long Crendon Mummer (Trimmer Shrimpton), circa 1932]
003 - 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]
004 - 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]
005 - Crendon Morris Men [photos]
006 - Haddenham Mummers [perform Haddenham text]New
007 - Mummers' Play: the Wooburn Version [citation of A.H. Cocks, in Records of Buckinghamshire, Vol.9, 1909, pp.222-226]New
008 - Owlswick Morris
009 - Stony Stratford Mummers [photos; scripts]
010 - Strange Britain [Photo of Beaconsfield Mummers, about 1950. Beaconsfield text, allegedly composed by G.K. Chesterton]
011 - Strange Britain [Haddenham text]
012 - Strange Wycombe [Revised edition] [extract from ed. Alan Cleaver, 1991]
013 - The Penn Versions of the Mummers Play [citation of A.H. Cocks, in Records of Buckinghamshire, Vol.10 Pt.3, 1912, pp.172-175]New
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