Folk Play Links - Durham, 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 * Carols at the Cross [at Ryton] [Annual mummers play by Ridley Mummers]
002 * Darlington Mummers [photos; programme]

Publications

003 * A Glossary of Provincial Words Used in Teesdale in the County of Durham [by [Frederick Trotter Dinsdale], 1849, pp.129-130 - entry for 'Sword Dancers' - Staindrop fragment?]
004 * A History of Thrislington, Cornforth and West Cornforth [by Robin Walton, 1992, p.? - Cornforth fragment]
005 * A List of Words and Phrases in Every-Day Use by the Natives of Hetton-le-Hole in the County of Durham [by ed. Rev F.M.T. Palgrave [Curate of Hetton], 1896, pp.22-23 - entry for 'Guising' - text]
006 * A List of Words and Phrases in Every-Day Use by the Natives of Hetton-le-Hole in the County of Durham [extract from ed. Rev F.M.T. Palgrave [Curate of Hetton], 1896, pp.22-23 - entry for 'Guising' - text]
007 * Ancient Poems Ballads and Songs of the Peasantry of England [Revised and enlarged edition only] [ed. by Robert Bell, 1857, pp.175-180 - 'The Sword-Dancers' Song and Interlude' - text]
008 * Beamish Museum : Audio History Collection [Audio of Reece Elliott - Guisers at Birtley]
009 * Beamish Museum : Audio History Collection [Audio of the Elliott family - Guisers at Birtley]
010 * FW-3565 - The Elliot[t?]s of Birtley : A Musical Portrait of a Durham Mining Family [CD for sale: Track 2]
011 * History of Hartlepool, [Re-Print edition] [by the late Sir Cuthbert Sharp, 1851, p.176 - "Guisers"]
012 * History of Hartlepool, A [1st edition] [extract from Sir Cuthbert Sharp, 1816 - "Guisers"]
013 * Memorials of Old Durham [ed. by Henry R. Leighton, 1910, pp.(58;) 59 - 'Folk-Lore of the County of Durham', by Mrs Newton W. Apperley - ("guisers" with mell supper;) "guisers"]
014 * Northern Minstrels and Folk Drama [citation of Madeleine Hope Dodds, in Archaeologia Aeliana, Ser.4 Vol.I, 1925, pp.121-146 - mummers at Shotley Bridge]
015 * Notes on the Folk Lore of the Northern Counties of England and the Borders [by William Henderson, 1866, pp.50-53 - Houghton-le-Spring fragment]
016 * Notes on the Sword-Dancers' Song and Interlude [by John Stokoe, in Monthly Chronicle of North-Country Lore and Legend, Vol.I No.10, Dec. 1887, pp.462-465 - calling-on song]
017 * Notes on the Sword-Dancers' Song and Interlude [by John Stokoe, in The Monthly Chronicle of North-Country Lore and Legend, Vol.I No.10, Dec. 1887, pp.462-465 - calling-on song]
018 * Selection of the most popular Melodies of the Tyne and the Wear [extract from Robert Topliff, [ca. 1815], p.37 - 'The Sword Dancers' tune]
019 * Selection of the most popular Melodies of the Tyne and the Wear [extract from Robert Topliff, [ca. 1815], p.42 - 'The Sword Dancers' words]
020 * The Bishoprick Garland, [by [Sir Cuthbert Sharp], 1834, pp.58-62 - text]
021 * The Folk Play in the North-East [extract from Tom Chambers, in Folk Voice North East, Vol.1 No.2, [ca. 1968] - Westerton text - Archived]
022 * The History and Antiquities of the Parish of Darlington, in the Bishoprick [by W. Hylton Dyer Longstaffe, 1854, p.338 - at Hurworth]
023 * The History of the Urban District of Spennymoor [by James J. Dodd, 1897, pp.117-121 - "Guisers" text]
024 * The Pitmen of the North [by George Augustus Sala, in Temple Bar, Vol.IV, Mar. 1862, p.458 - "Sword Dancers"]
025 * We are six dancers bold..." : A History of the Greatham Sword Dance [internet version without photos] [by Brian Pearce, 2001]
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