Folk Play Links - Greater London, 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 * Bankside Mummers / The Lion's Part [photos; programme]
002 * Greensleeves Morris Men [photo; programme]
003 * Hammersmith Morris Men
004 * Herga Mummers / Herga Folk Club [photos; programme]
005 * New Scorpion Band [Sometimes mummers play]
006 * Stephen Goad [member of Bromley Mummers [no longer performing]]
007 * The (Insert Name Here) Mummers [photos; programme]

Publications

008 * A History of Middlesex. Vol.5 [edited by T.F.T. Baker, 1976, p.27 - 'Hendon', by G.C. Tyack - citation of Christmas Mummers in the Home Counties, by T. Fairman Ordish, in Home Counties Magazine, Vol.III, 1901, pp.246-247]
009 * A History of the County of Middlesex. Vol.4 [edited by J.S. Cockburn and T.F.T. Baker, 1971, p.235 - 'Harrow, including Pinner', by Diane K. Bolton - citation of Pinner in the Vale, by E.M. Ware, Pt.3, 1957, p.141]
010 * Alex Helm Collection [Ref. Vol.4 pp.169-173] [Copy of Vaughan Williams Memorial Library Collection [Ref. Middlesex pp.13-16]] [Copy in West Drayton and District Local History Society Collection] [extract with Eastcote text]
011 * Christmas Mummers in the Home Counties [by T. Fairman Ordish, in Home Counties Magazine, Vol.III, 1901, pp.246-247 - Highwood House, Mill Hill fragment for what is now Thomas Fairman Ordish Collection]
012 * Folk-Lore in the Home Counties - How the Camera can Help [by T. Fairman Ordish, in Home Counties Magazine, Vol.I, 1899, pp.25-28 - at Barnes from Brentford, 1891, for what is now Thomas Fairman Ordish Collection]
013 * Harrow County School for Boys : The Concert of Christmas Music and Drama - 1959 [by B.G. Marchant, in Gaytonian, 1960]
014 * ITN Archive [League of Arts]
015 * Mumming" [by O. [Thomas Fairman Ordish ?], in Notes and Queries, 5th Ser. Vol.I No.23, 6th Jun. 1874, p.453 - at Hammersmith & Chiswick]
016 * Phiz and Dickens [US edition] [by Edgar Browne, 1914, pp.26, 129-130 - at Thornton Heath]
017 * The Eastcote Mummers' Play [by Keith Holland, in The Journal of the Ruislip and District Natural History Society, 5, 1956, pp.3-5 - text]
018 * The Eastcote Mummers' Play [citation of Keith Holland, in The Journal of the Ruislip and District Natural History Society, 5, 1956, pp.3-5 - text]
019 * The History of Eastcote : Middlesex [extract from W.A.G. Kemp, 1963, p.72 - Archived]
020 * The History of Eastcote : Middlesex [extract from W.A.G. Kemp, 1963, pp.127-129 - text]
021 * The Mummers [by G.W. Septimus Piesse, in Notes and Queries:, Ser.2 Vol.X No.259, 15th Dec. 1860, pp.466-467 - at Turnham Green]
022 * The West Drayton Mummers' Play [Draft in West Drayton and District Local History Society Collection] [by [A.H. Cox], in West Drayton and District Historian, Jan. 1964, pp.7-12 - text (- in fact Sandys' & Udal's texts conflated?)]
023 * Topical Notes : The Mummers [Copy, by Keith Holland, in Uxbridge Library Local Collection] [by Vale of Aylesbury [pseud.], in Bucks Herald, 29th Dec. 1923, p.5c - Harefield text]
024 * Vaughan Williams Memorial Library Collection [Ref. Middlesex p.27] [Copy, by Keith Holland, in Uxbridge Library Local Collection] [extract with Yiewsley fragment]

[General]

025 * Best Shot Theatre [List with 1982 & 1997 performances]
026 * John Ruskin Grammar School [Photo of and article about 1947 performance]
027 * Mutiny Arts [photos 1999 2000]
028 * Strange Croydon [internet only] [by Val Hope, Chapter 'Performing Croydon', p.?]
029 * Will O'Brien [Mention of performance in a Mummers' play at Highgate School, Christmas 1992 ]
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