Folk Play Links - Dorset, 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 * Andy Anderson [2000 report, with photos, about Babylon]
002 * Babylon [photos; programme; script]
003 * Christchurch Folk [Photo of Dorset Knobs]
004 * Dorset Knobs [photos; programme; scripts]
005 * FF-1104 - Walk in, Saint George [DVD for sale: Video of Symondsbury Mummers, 1953]
006 * Frome Valley Morris [photos; programme]
007 * FTX-103 - Walk in, St. George : Dorset & Devonshire Mummers [CD for sale: Audio of Symondsbury Mummers, 1957]
008 * FTX-408 - Dorset is Beautiful : Village Traditions - Dorset [CD for sale: Audio of Evershot [Symondsbury] Mummers, 1936]
009 * FTX-950 - Sing Christmas 1957 [CD for sale: Audio of two excerpts of Mummers' songs from (FTX-104 and) FTX-103]
010 * Roun1719 - Songs of Christmas from the Alan Lomax Collection [CD for sale: as FTX-103]
011 * Roun1850 - Sing Christmas and the Turn of the Year : The Live Christmas Day 1957 Broadcast on BBC Radio [CD for sale: as FTX-950]
012 * Steps in Time [programme]
013 * Stourvale Mummers / Bourne River Morris Men [perform Sixpenny Handley text; photos; programme; script]
014 * Symondsbury Parish [Includes a brief description of Symondsbury Mummers]
015 * Wessex Morris Men [perform Quidhampton text; photo; programme]

Publications

016 * A Grammar and Glossary of the Dorset Dialect [by W. Barnes, in Transactions of the Philological Society, 1864, p.71 - entry for 'Mummers' - as his book but with entry for 'Mummock']
017 * A Southwell Maid's Diary [by Elizabeth W. Otter, 1930, p.17]
018 * Christmas in Dorsetshire [by J.S. Udal, in Notes and Queries, 6th Ser. Vol.II No.52, 25th Dec. 1880, pp.504-505 - "mummers" - citations of Christmas Mummers in Dorsetshire, by him, in Folk-Lore Record, Vol.III Pt.I, 1880, pp.87-116; Christmas Mummers in Dorsetshire, by him, in Notes & Queries, 5th Ser. Vol.II No.52, 26th Dec. 1874, p.505]
019 * Christmas Mummers in Dorsetshire [by J.S. Udal, in Folk-Lore Record, Vol.III Pt.I, 1880, pp.87-116 - extract from A Grammar and Glossary of the Dorset Dialect, by W. Barnes, in Transactions of the Philological Society, 1864, p.71 - entry for 'Mummers'; citation of Christmas Mummers in Dorsetshire, by J.S. Udal, in Notes & Queries, 5th Ser. Vol.II No.52, 26th Dec. 1874, p.505; [Symondsbury] text; south-west [Bridport ?] text; (note by The Editor [?]: J.T. Micklethwaite possessed Walker Peace Egg chapbook for what is now Thomas Fairman Ordish Collection; Dumbleton text for what is now Thomas Fairman Ordish Collection; at Minety; at Acomb; citation of Banks of the Boro: A Chronicle of the County of Wexford, by Patrick Kennedy, 1867, pp.226-232)]
020 * Christmas Mummers in Dorsetshire [by J.S. Udal, in Notes and Queries, 5th Ser. Vol.II No.52, 26th Dec. 1874, p.505 - at []]
021 * Christmas Observances in Dorset in 1830 [by St Swithin [Mrs Gutch], in Notes and Queries, 7th Ser. Vol.X No.260, 20th Dec. 1890, pp.486-487 - extract from The Journal of Mary Frampton, from the Year 1779, until the Year 1846, ed. by Harriot Georgiana Mundy, 1885, pp.365-366]
022 * Contributions towards the History of Mediaeval Armour and Weapons in Europe : Sword of the Duke of Monmouth [by John Hewitt, in Archaeological Journal, Vol.XXI, 1864, pp.62-63 - [Sixpenny Handley Mummers] at Woodyates]
023 * Dorsetshire Children's Games, etc [by J.S. Udal, in Folk-Lore Journal, Vol.VII No.3, Sep? 1889, pp.246-247 - at Symondsbury; at Symondsbury from Bridport]
024 * FTX-517 - Bloody Waterloo : Napoleon - Song's Marches & a Mummers Play [CD for sale: Audio of Dorchester [West Lulworth] Mummers, 1936]
025 * Glimpses of Past Days [sic] in & around Sixpenny Handley [by F. Adams, [ca. 1953]]
026 * Mummers and Minors [in Dorset Echo, 21st Dec. 2007 - Title of Dec. 2007 talk by David Craner to West Lulworth History Group]
027 * Mysteries of "Mumming" [by W.B. [William Barnes], in The Crypt, Vol.II, Jan.-Jun. 1828, pp.220-221 - extract from Dorset County Chronicle, Somersetshire Gazette, and General Advertiser for бн, Vol.8 No.380, 3rd Apr. 1828, p.2a]
028 * Mysteries of "Mumming", The [by A. B., in The Crypt,, Vol.II, Jan.-Jun. 1828, pp.68-70 - (citation of The Poems and Letters of Thomas Gray : with Memoirs of his Life and Writings, by William Mason, 1820, pp.429fn-432fn)]
029 * Poems of Rural Life, in the Dorset Dialect [2nd edition] [by William Barnes, 1847, p.363 - 'A Glossary' - entry for 'Mummock']
030 * Shillingstone : The Story of a Dorset Village [by ed. Rev J.H. Cooke, 1921, Chapter VII - "бн -formal, undramatic, incredibly dull: to revive the Mummers would now be futile"!]
031 * The History and Antiquities of the Borough of Lyme Regis and Charmouth [by George Roberts, 1834, p.257 - at Lyme Regis]
032 * The Journal of Mary Frampton, from the Year 1779, until the Year 1846 [ed. by Harriot Georgiana Mundy, 1885, pp.365-366 - not allowed to perform at Moreton]
033 * The Three Dorset Captains at Trafalgar [by A.M. Broadley & R.G. Bartelot, 1906, pp.x-xi - interlude with characters of Nelson and Hardy]

[General]

034 * Singing the Travels [sung by the Silly Sisters - Symondsbury Mummers' song]
035 * Wartime Holidays, by Eric Heathfield [internet only] [mummers at Sturminster Marshall, 1940]

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