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.


Groups

001 * Crendon Mummers / Crendon Morris Men [photos; programme]
002 * Haddenham Mummers [perform Haddenham text; photo; programme; video]
003 * Owlswick Morris [photos; programme]
004 * Stony Stratford Mummers [photos; programme; scripts]

Publications

005 * Buckinghamshire Photographs [image archive] [Photo of Long Crendon Mummer (Trimmer Shrimpton), circa 1932]
006 * 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)]
010 * Strange Wycombe [Revised edition] [ed. by Alan Cleaver, 1991, pp.79-89]
011 * The Penn Version of the Mummers' Play [citation of Alfred Heneage Cocks, in Records of Buckinghamshire, Vol.10 Pt.3, 1912, pp.172-175]
012 * The Wooburn Version of the Mummers' Play [citation of Alfred Heneage Cocks, in Records of Buckinghamshire, Vol.9, 1909, pp.222-226 - text]

[General]

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]
015 * Strange Britain [Haddenham text]

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