Folk Play Links - Cheshire, 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 * Alderley Edge Landscape Project: Heritage and Educational Resources (AELPHER) [Audio of Alderley Mummers etc]
002 * Alderley Mummers & Swettenham Soulers / Adlington Morris Men [perform Alderley text; photos]
003 * Alderley Mummers & Swettenham Soulers / Adlington Morris Men [myManchesterOnline - perform Alderley text]
004 * Antrobus Soulcakers [DVD for sale: Video of them, by Leeds University TV]
005 * Comberbach Soulcakers [perform Comberbach text; photos; programme; script]
006 * FF-108: Step in, Wild Horse [DVD for sale: Video of Antrobus Soulcakers, 1956 & 1983]
007 * FTX-107 - Cheshire Souling Plays [CD for sale: Audio of Antrobus Soulcakers, 1954]
008 * Halton Soulers / Earl of Stamford Morris [perform Halton text; photos]
009 * Isca Morrismen [Photos of Alderley Mummers]
010 * Morris Dancing Discussion List : Souling [Posting by Howard Mitchell, Oct. 1997 - List of locations in Cheshire where Souling took place. No references]
011 * Readers Section [by Tom Hughes, in CHH News, Spring 2003, p.5 - about Soul Caking plays in Cheshire and Jones' Ale Soul Cakers]
012 * Warburton Soulers (/ Bollin River Morris) [perform Warburton text; photos; audio]

Publications

013 * A Glossary of Words used in the County of Cheshire [by Robert Holland, 1885-86, p.101 - entry for 'Dobby-Horse'; p.330 - entry for 'Soul-Cakers or Soulers'; pp.506-513 - 'Souling or Soul-Caking' - "acting" at Halton, Middlewich, Mobberley, [Frodsham]; possesses Looney & Pilling Peace Egg chapbook?; Halton text]
014 * Barthomley : In Letters from a Former Rector to his Eldest Son [by Rev Edward Hinchliffe [former Rector of Barthomley], 1856, pp.141-143]
015 * Cheshire Folk Drama [extract from Alex Helm, 1968 - Antrobus text]
016 * Cheshire Gleanings [by William E.A. Axon, 1884, pp.155-159 - 'Old Easter Customs of Cheshire' - "pace-egg"]
017 * Cuddington and Sandiway [by Latham, 1975, Nos.12 & 17 under 'Sports and Customs' - paraphrasing Cheshire Folk Drama, by Alex Helm, 1968 - Archived]
018 * Dictionary of Customs [by Ricardus Frederici, in Notes and Queries:, Ser.3 Vol.XII No.311, 14th Dec. 1867, p.479 - "guisers" at Astbury, Rode & Lawton; ("souling" at Mow Cop)]
019 * Frodsham Soul Caking Play [Pamphlet for sale: by Bob Rogers (- in fact transcript of excerpt of FTX-107)]
020 * From John O' Groats to Land's End [by John & Robert Naylor, 1916 - Mummers at Grappenhall]
021 * Hodening [by E. Leaton-Blenkinsopp, in Notes & Queries, 7th Ser. Vol.XI No.271, 7th Mar. 1891, pp.183-184 - (extract from Church Times, 23rd Jan. 1891 - at Walmer; at Hoath, Herne & Chislet;) [souling] at Northwich]
022 * Knutsford, its Traditions and History : [by Henry Green, 1859, pp.79-80 - St George and the Slasher; citation of Barthomley, by Rev Edward Hinchliffe, 1856, pp.141-143; extract from The History of the County Palatine and City of Cheshire;, by George Ormerod, 1819, Vol.I p.lii (/ pp.81-83 - Song of the Soulers)]
023 * Memorials of Old Cheshire [eds. by Ven Edward Barber & Rev P.H. Ditchfield, 1910, p.235 - 'Some Cheshire Customs Customs, Proverbs, and Folk-Lore', by Joseph C. Bridge - soulers at Northwich, Tarporley & Over]
024 * Memories of a Sister of S. Saviour's Priory [by Mother Kate [Katherine Anne Egerton Warburton], 1903 - "Old Nobs" at [Warburton] - Archived]
025 * Memories of Hawthorne [by Rose Hawthorne Lathrop [his younger daughter], 1897 - mummers (carollers ?) at Rock Park, Rock Ferry]
026 * Memories of the Soulers and Geezers [in Congleton Chronicle - Text of the Geezers' play remembered by Mr. Bert Meakin of Key Green - Archived]
027 * Morris and Mumming [by Francis A. Shurrock, in English Folk Lore in Dance and Song, No.3, Jun. 1939, p.10 - Tarvin fragment]
028 * Mummers [by C.V. Goddard, in Antiquarian Magazine + Bibliographer, Vol.III No.16, [Apr.] 1883, p.218 - mummers at Upton]
029 * Old English Customs Extant at the Present Time [by P.H. Ditchfield [Rector of Barkham], 1896, (pp.27-28 - Hoodening at Walmer;) 28 - [souling] at Northwich; [both paraphrased from Hodening, by E. Leaton-Blenkinsopp, in Notes & Queries, 7th Ser. Vol.XI No.271, 7th Mar. 1891, pp.183-184;] (28-29 - "the Broad" at Kingscote)]
030 * On Ancient Customs of Cheshire [by Llewellynn Jewitt, in Journal of the British Archaeological Association, Vol.V, 1850, pp.252-253 - a-souling play & "Old Hob"]
031 * Open the Door and Let Us In [by Roy Clinging, in The Living Tradition, Iss.25, ?]
032 * Peer's Party for Mummers [in Daily Mirror, No.6190, 2nd Jan. 1926, p.8ab - Photo of Alderley Mummers - Subscription required for UKPressOnline]
033 * St George Mumming Play [by Arthur Bowes, in Notes & Queries, 12th Ser. Vol.I No.20, 13th May 1916, p.393 - (at Newton-le-Willows;) possesses chapbook; at Alderley Park, [Nether] Alderley; citation of T.P.'s Weekly, Christmas No., 1913 or 1914; citation of A School Party of 1861, in Manchester City News, 10th Jan. 1914]
034 * Tales from a Sporting Life [Book for sale: by Percy Youd, 2003 - Frodsham text + photo of Helsby soul-cakers + photo of Jones' Ale Soul Caker]
035 * The Antrobus Soulcaking Play: An Alternative Approach to the Mummers' Play [citation of Susan Pattison, in Folk Life, Vol.15, 1977]
036 * The Early Married Life of Maria Josepha Lady Stanley, [ed. by Jane H. Adeane [one of her grandchildren], 1899, p.248 - mummers at Alderley Park, Nether Alderley, 1802]
037 * The Horse's Head [by Julius [pseud], in Notes and Queries:, [Ser.1] Vol.I No.17, 23rd Feb. 1850, pp.258-259 - at Lymm [sic]]
038 * Village History Scrapbook [Cheshire Record Office] [by Upton Heath Women's Institute, 1951 - Souling, including the words of a song]

[General]

039 * A History of Morris Dancing in and around Lymm and Statham, by Geoff Bibby [Lymm soul-caking song (words only) & two play texts, collected 1950 & 1980]
040 * Kingsley Players [List with Oct. 1985 performance]
041 * Pace Egging Song [Score and words taken from the Watersons Calendar.]
042 * Wilmslow Guild Players [List with 1941 performance of W.Sandys (1833) Cornish Mummers' Play]

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