Folk Play Links - Lancashire, 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 * Abram Pace Eggers / Abram Morris Dancers [CommuniGate - Text of a 'typical' Lancashire Pace-Egg play, but not the text performed by Abram Pace Eggers]
002 * Abram Pace Eggers / Abram Morris Dancers [perform Lancaster text; photos; programme]
003 * Curtain Theatre Players [perform Edwards & Bryning chapbook text; photos; video; programme]
004 * Fylde Folk Festival [Photo of Fleetwood Cod End Mummers [no longer performing]]
005 * Middleton Pace Eggers [photos; cast list; programme; script]
006 * Middleton's Pace Eggers [in Middleton Guardian, 23rd Apr. 1985; 30th Mar. 1989; 7th Apr. 1994]
007 * Mossley Morris Men [perform Harland photos; programme - Saddleworth MM]
008 * Pace-egging Plays [index to Gordon Ridgewell, in FLS News, No.47, Nov. 2005, p.14 - citations of Bury Times, 22nd Mar. 2005, pp.10, 15 (& Hebden Bridge Times, 1st Apr. 2005, pp.1, 5)]
009 * Southport Mummers / Bothy Folk Club [no longer performing] [photo]
010 * Stone the Crows
011 * Thelwall Mummers / Thelwall Morris [photos; cast list; programme; script]

Publications

012 * A Glossary of the Lancashire Dialect [by John H. Nodal & George Milner, 1875, p.209 - entry for 'Pace-Eggers']
013 * A History of Altrincham and Bowdon, [by Alfred Ingham, 1879, pp.126-127 - "Peace Egg" or "St. George's annual play for the amusement of youth"]
014 * A History of Flixton, Urmston, and Davyhulme [by Richard Lawson, 1898, pp.83-84 - 'The Pace-Eggers' - "Mummers" from Eccles at Flixton & at Flixton]
015 * A History of Pantomime [by R.J. Broadbent, 1901, Chapter VIII - "Paste-eggers" at Kirkby]
016 * A History of the County of Lancaster. Vol.3 [edited by William Farrer and J. Brownbill, 1907, p.285 - 'Aughton', by William Farrer and J. Brownbill - "pace-egging" - citation of Gleanings towards the Annals of Aughton, near Ormskirk, comp. by G. Coulthard Newstead, 1893, pp.39-40]
017 * A History of the County of Lancaster. Vol.5 [edited by William Farrer and J. Brownbill, 1911, p.46 - 'Flixton : Flixton', by W. Farrer and J. Brownbill - "pace-egging" - citation of A History of Flixton, Urmston, and Davyhulme, by Richard Lawson, 1898, pp.83-84 & A History of the Parish of Flixton, by David Herbert Langton, 1898, pp.98-99]
018 * Ab-o'th'-Yate's Dictionary; Or, Walmsley Fowt Skoomester [by [Benjamin Brierley], 1881, p.79 - entry for 'First' - "What every concaited foo likes bein, even if he's nobbut leeadin up pace-eggers. He mun have his face extry blacked, an' summat in his button-hole."]
019 * Alexander and the King of Egypt [by J.H. D. [James Henry Dixon], in Local Historian's Table Book, 1846, Legendary Division Vol.III, pp.375-380 - (Newcastle chapbook text;) chapbook just been published by P. Whittle of Preston]
020 * Annals of the Liverpool Stage [by R.J. Broadbent, 1908, p.3 - at Kirkby, thirty years ago]
021 * Bowd Slasher [extract from The Works of John Trafford Clegg ("Th' Owd Weighver") : Stories, Sketches, & Rhymes in the Rochdale [sic] Dialect, Vol.1, 1895, pp.76-83]
022 * 'By my travels': the doctor's speeches in some north-western pace-egging plays [citation of Kathleen Harryman, in Bulletin of John Rylands University Library of Manchester, Vol.81 No.1, Spring 1999, pp.113-125]
023 * Bygone Stalybridge [by Samuel Hill, 1907, p.142 - 'Peace-Egging' - fragment]
024 * Darwen and its People [extract from J.G. Shaw, 1889]
025 * Eminent Literary and Scientific Men of Great Britain and Ireland, Vol.I [by [S.A. Dunham ?], 1836, pp.183-184 - 'John Heywood' - "on the borders of Lancashire and Yorkshire, on Good Friday"]
026 * English County Songs [extract from Broadwood & Maitland, 1893 - Peace egging at Heysham]
027 * Folk-Lore : Old Customs and Tales of my Neighbours [by Fletcher Moss, 1898, pp.40-41 - mummers' play with Old Hob or Old Ball at pace-egging time; 67-68 - mumming at Christmas - [compilation?]]
028 * Gleanings towards the Annals of Aughton, near Ormskirk [comp. by G. Coulthard Newstead, 1893, pp.39-40 - 'Easter Pasch or Pace Egging']
029 * Historical and Descriptive Notices of Droylsden, Past and Present [by John Higson, 1859, p.61 - pace eggers]
030 * History of the Fylde of Lancashire [by John Porter, 1876, pp.106; 107 - fragment; (All Souls' Day at [Great & Little] Marton)]
031 * Ignagning and Ignagnus [by T., in Notes and Queries:, Ser.2 Vol.V No.120, 17th Apr. 1858, p.315 - in the Fylde]
032 * John Harkness Publisher & Printer of Broadsheets [by Roy Smith, in Fulwood Methodist Church Magazine, Easter 2002]
033 * Lancashire Customs [by P. P., in Notes and Queries:, [Ser.1] Vol.III No.87, 28th Jun. 1851, pp.516-517 - "pace eggers"]
034 * Lancashire Memories [by Louisa Potter, 1879, pp.80-81 - Stand fragment]
035 * Lifting Tuesday [by Arthur W. Fox, in Papers of the Manchester Literary Club : The Manchester Quarterly:, Vol.XXVIII : XXI, 1902, pp.152 - Pace-egging at Barnton [Ashton-in-Makerfield ?] on Good Friday; (152-153 - "Black Pace-eggers" on Thursday; 153 - small boys and girls on Good Friday)]
036 * Long Preston Peggy" [by James Henry Dixon, in Notes and Queries, 4th Ser. Vol.IX No.213, 27th Jan. 1872, p.82 - Peter Whittle of Preston printed a chapbook]
037 * Memoirs of Seventy Years of an Eventful Life, [by Charles Hulbert, 1852, p.42 - "Acting" at Northen Etchells]
038 * Memorials of Hindley [extract from John Leyland, [1874], Part First - Paste-egging]
039 * North West Film Archive [Search for 'Pace Egg' or 'Mummers']
040 * North West Sound Archive
041 * Notes & Queries : Easter Customs [by J. B., in Manchester Weekly Times and Salford Weekly News, No.1683, 26th Oct. 1889, p.6d - "ribboners" at Urmston & Flixton - Subscription required for Gale: 19th Century British Library Newspapers]
042 * Notes on Southport and District [by W.T. Bulpit, 1908 - mummers and pace-eggers at Banks up to circa 1878]
043 * Observations on the Popular Antiquities of Great Britain: [New edition, with further additions [by James Orchard Halliwell] only] [by John Brand, rev. by Sir Henry Ellis, 1849, Vol.I p.176 - extract from Peace Egg chapbook that he possesses]
044 * Our Weekly Party [in Young Folks, Iss.487, 3rd Apr. 1880 - peace egg at Oldham - Subscription required for Gale: 19th Century UK Periodicals]
045 * Pace-eggers break out of their shell [by Eddie Cass, in Shave The Donkey, 27 Apr. 2001]
046 * Pace-Egging [by F. Williamson, in Notes and Queries, 12th Ser. Vol.II No.27, 1st Jul. 1916, p.12 - at Rochdale; possesses Edwards & Bryning chapbook]
047 * Pace-Egging [by Fred L. Tavar¨¦, in Notes and Queries, 12th Ser. Vol.II No.30, 22nd Jul. 1916, p.76 - extract from Old Chorlton - at Chorlton-cum-Hardy]
048 * Pace-Egging in Bury and Beyond [by Alan J. Seymour, 1994 - Archived]
049 * Pace-Egging in Lancashire [by J. B., in City News Notes and Queries, Vol.III Pt.IV, Oct. - Dec. 1878, p.322 - extract from Manchester City News, 21st Dec. 1878]
050 * Pace-Egging in Lancashire [by W. H., in City News Notes and Queries, Vol.III Pt.IV, Oct. - Dec. 1878, pp.326-327 - extract from Manchester City News, 28th Dec. 1878 - Manchester fragment; at Free-trade Hall, thirty years ago]
051 * Play for Today [in Rochdale Observer, 10th Apr. 1974 - Redbrook School performance]
052 * Public Realm Built on Myth [by Rory Olcayto, in Architects' Journal, Vol.228 No.11, 25th Sep. 2008, pp.20-23 - iconography in Burscough Bridge regeneration scheme inspired by pace eggers & Photos of Bury Pace Eggers]
053 * Reminiscences of Lancashire and Cheshire when George IV was King [by Charlotte S. Burne, in Folk-Lore, Vol.XX No.2, Jun. 1909, p.207 - Northenden fragment; "pace-eggers at Bury"]
054 * Revival of Old Christmas Gambols at Manchester : Christmas Play of "St. George and the Dragon" [citation of Illustrated London News, Vol.XIV No.353, 13th Jan. 1849, pp.27-28 - engraving of the Manchester Mechanics' Institution]
055 * Rochdale Pace Egg Group of Over Sixty Years Ago [in Rochdale Observer, 4th Aug. 1956 - photo, old n.d.]
056 * Rural Amusements [by J. A., in Kaleidoscope, Vol.V No.254, 10th May 1825, pp.378-379 - [Salford ?] text; (extract from Poems, Chiefly Pastoral, by John Cunningham, 1766, pp.171-172)]
057 * St George Mumming Play [by Arthur Bowes, in Notes and 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]
058 * Survey of English Dialects (SED) Incidental Material [Ref. 5La3] [Pace Egg Play at Yealand]
059 * The Brothers Beattie and their Drawings of Old Liverpool [by Charles R. Hand, in Transactions of the Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire, Vol.LXVI (New Ser. Vol.XXX), Year 1914, p.144 - 'The Southport of Sixty Years Ago', by Edwin Robert Beattie - Pace Eggers]
060 * The History of Adult Education, [by J.W. Hudson, 1851, p.128 - 'The Manchester Mechanics' Institution']
061 * The History of the Parish of Kirkham, in the County of Lancaster [by Henry Fishwick, 1874, p.207 - 'Pace-Egging']
062 * The History of the Parish of Poulton-le-Fylde, in the County of Lancaster [by Henry Fishwick, 1885, p.199 - 'Ignagning' - now known as "Pace-egging"]
063 * The Nursery Rhymes of England, [4th edition only] [ed. by James Orchard Halliwell, 1846, p.211 - CCCCLXXXIII "Here come I, Little David Doubt;"]
064 * The Pace Egg and its Origin [in Rochdale Observer, 14th Apr. 1909]
065 * The Pace Egg in Southern Lancashire [citation of Alan & Jean Seymour, in Folk Music Journal, Vol.2 No.4, 1973, pp.305-314]
066 * The pace-egg play - a traditional drama in the Lancashire cotton towns [Offprint for sale: by Eddie Cass in Transactions of the Lancashire & Cheshire Antiquarian Society, Vol.94, 1998, pp.111-135]
067 * The Pace-Egging Play in Lancashire (post-1918) [citation of Eddie Cass, in Lancashire History Quarterly, Vol.2 No.4, Dec. 1998, pp.129-132]
068 * The Pace-Egging Play in Lancashire (pre-1918) [citation of Eddie Cass, in Lancashire History Quarterly, Vol.2 No.3, Sep. 1998, pp.85-89]
069 * The Peace Egg Book: an Anglo-Irish Chapbook Connection Discovered [by Eddie Cass, Michael J.Preston & Paul Smith, in Folklore, Vol.114 No.1, Apr. 2003]
070 * The Peace Egg" [by H. Fishwick, in Notes and Queries, 5th Ser. Vol.V No.109, 29th Jan. 1876, p.96 - "paceggers"]
071 * The Peace Egg" [by P. P., in Notes and Queries, 5th Ser. Vol.V No.109, 29th Jan. 1876, p.96 - "pace eggers"]
072 * Traditions, Superstitions, and Folk-Lore, (Chiefly Lancashire and the North of England:) [by Charles Hardwick, 1872, p.73 - "pace-egging" at Preston (& (non-play) at Walton-le-Dale)]
073 * What is the Pace-Egg Play? [citation of Eddie Cass, in Northern Earth, No.105, Spring 2006, pp.7-12]
074 * What is the Pace-Egg Play? [without illustratons] [by Eddie Cass, in Northern Earth, No.105, Spring 2006, pp.7-12]

[General]

075 * Beg Your Leave [sung by Steeleye Span - Overton]
076 * castle hall [Pace-Egging at Stalybridge]
077 * Curious Customs [exhibition at Prescot Museum, 2002 - Archived]
078 * Pace Egging: A Lancashire Tradition, by John Ravenscroft [internet only] [Article including photos by Duncan Broomhead]
079 * Rochdale Local Studies Library [History of the local Pace Egg plays - with many photos, old n.d.]
080 * The Prescotian [Photo of Prescot Grammar School 1975 performance]

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