Folk Play Links - Cumbria, 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 * Life and Tradition in the Lake District [citation of William Rollinson, 1974, plate 42 - Photo of Furness Morris Men]
002 * Solway Morris [photos]
003 * St Bees Traditional Mummers [perform Alexander and the King of Egypt chapbook text; photos]

Publications

004 * Ancient Customs and Superstitions in Cumberland [by A. Craig Gibson, in Transactions of the Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire, Vol.X, Session 1857-58, p.103]
005 * Ancient Customs and Superstitions in Cumberland [citation of A. Craig Gibson, in Transactions of the Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire, Vol.X, Session 1857-58, p.103]
006 * Bygone Cumberland and Westmorland [by Daniel Scott, 1899, pp.202-203 - maskers and rapier-dancers [- compiled ?]]
007 * Bygone Cumberland and Westmorland [extract from Daniel Scott, 1899, pp.202-203 - maskers and rapier-dancers [- compiled ?]]
008 * Christmastide [sic] : its History, Festivities, and Carols [by William Sandys, [1852] - 'Alexander and the King of Egypt' chapbook text]
009 * City of Carlisle : Bibliotheca Jacksoniana : Catalogue [by James Pitcairn Hinds, 1909, p.3 - entry for Alexander and the King of Egypt,, n.d.]
010 * Epiphany and Easter Observances in Westmoreland [by J.B. Partridge, in Folk-Lore, Vol.XXV No.3, Sep. 1914, p.373 - "In this and the neighbouring counties young folk or mummers used to perform a sort of play, and begged for pace eggs."]
011 * FTX-108 - Bessy Brown Bags : Cumbrian Pace-Egg Customs [CD for sale: Audio of Near & Far Sawrey Page Egg Plays, 1960 + 1967]
012 * Hawkshead: [by Henry Swainson Cowper, 1899, pp.334-337 - 'The Easter Pace-Egg Play' - Satterthwaite text & at Hawkshead]
013 * Lake-Country Rambles [by William T. Palmer, 1902, p.2; pp.318-334 - Bowston jollyboying text]
014 * Milnthorpe Jolly Boys [by Duncan Broomhead, in Buzz, No.64, Spring 2001, pp.16-18 - text - Archived]
015 * Months at the Lakes [by Rev H.D. Rawnsley [Vicar of Wray], 1906, p.8 - "pasch eggers" at Grasmere; (12-17 - paraphrasing Pace-Eggin' Time, by Miss [Eleanor Foster] Simpson [later his wife], 1906)]
016 * Pace-Egging [by De V. Payen-Payne, in Notes and Queries, 12th Ser. Vol.I No.25, 17th Jun. 1916, p.488 - at Grasmere]
017 * Survey of English Dialects (SED) Incidental Material [Ref. 2Cu4] [Jolly Boys at Threlkeld]
018 * The Annals of a Quiet Valley [by A Country Parson [Anon], ed. by John Watson, 1894, p.172 - parties of rapier-dancers]
019 * The Christmas Boys' [by F.Gordon Brown, in Notes and Queries, 10th Ser. Vol.VII No.159, 12th Jan. 1907, pp.31-32 - unlocated fragment]
020 * The History of Witherslack, Meathop and Ulpha during The Twentieth Century [by Maureen James, 2000, pp.38-40 - Jolly Boys at Witherslack]
021 * The Records of Patterdale : historical and descriptive [by Rev W.P. Morris [Rector of Patterdale], 1903, p.151 - 'An Old Easter Custom' - "jollyboying" or "pace-egging"]
022 * The Remains of John Briggs: [by John Briggs, 1825, pp.206-207; 236-241 - ]
023 * The Second International Folk-Lore Congress, 1891 [eds. by Joseph Jacobs & Alfred Nutt, 1892, p.436 - for what is now Thomas Fairman Ordish Collection 'Catalogue of the Exhibition of Objects Connected with Folk-Lore in the Rooms of the Society of Antiquaries, Burlington House : Three Pace Eggs (Easter Eggs) from Woodbroughton, near Cartmel, Furness' - "pace-eggers" at Field Broughton & Lowick; '... : Mummers' Plays in MS., written for Miss Burne by the peasant mummers' (/ pp.463-464 - 'Conversaziane : 9.55 : The Guisers' Play' - reproduction of it as at Eccleshall)]
024 * Whitehaven Customs [by An Admirer of your Every-Day Book [pseud], in The Every-Day Book;, by William Hone, Vol.II, 182?, cols.1645-1648 - 'Alexander and the King of Egypt' chapbook published by T. Wilson, Whitehaven]

[General]

025 * Ashton Theatre Group, Youth Theatre [List with 1998 performance]

Contact us with any new or updated links.
The recommended URL for this web page is www.folkplay.info/Links/Cumbria.htm

© 2000-2009, TDRG. Contact: c/o webmaster@folkplay.info, Last updated: 18/12/2009