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.

001 - A History of Pantomime [by R.J. Broadbent, 1901, Chapter VIII - "Paste-eggers" at Kirkby]
002 - A History of the County of Lancaster, Vol.3 [1907, pp.284-291 - 'Aughton : Introduction' - "pace-egging" - citation of Annals of Aughton, by Newstead, pp.39-40]New
003 - A History of the County of Lancaster, Vol.5 [1911, pp.46-50 - 'Flixton' - "pace-egging"]New
004 - Abram Pace Eggers / Abram Morris Dancers [CommuniGate - Text of a 'typical' Lancashire Pace-Egg play, but not the text performed by Abram Pace Eggers]
005 - Abram Pace Eggers / Abram Morris Dancers [perform Lancaster text; photos]
006 - Beg Your Leave [sung by Steeleye Span - Overton]
007 - Bowd Slasher [in his The Works of John Trafford Clegg ("Th' Owd Weighver") : Stories, Sketches, & Rhymes in the Rochdale [sic] Dialect, Vol.1, 1895, pp.76-83]New
008 - '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]
009 - Curious Customs [exhibition at Prescot Museum, 2002 - Archived]
010 - Darwen and its People [extract from J.G. Shaw, 1889]
011 - English County Songs [extract from Broadwood & Maitland, 1893 - Peace egging at Heysham]
012 - Fylde Folk Festival [Photo of Fleetwood Cod End Mummers [no longer performing]]
013 - John Harkness Publisher & Printer of Broadsheets [by Roy Smith, in Fulwood Methodist Church Magazine, Easter 2002]
014 - Memoirs of Seventy Years of an Eventful Life, [by Charles Hulbert, 1852, p.42 - "Acting" at Northen Etchells]New
015 - Memorials of Hindley [extract from John Leyland, [1874], Part First - Paste-egging]
016 - Middleton's Pace Eggers [in Middleton Guardian, 23rd April 1985; 30th March, 1989; 7th April 1994]New
017 - Mossley Morris Men [photos]
018 - Notes on Southport and District [by W.T. Bulpit, 1908 - mummers and pace-eggers at Banks up to circa 1878]
019 - Pace Egging: A Lancashire Tradition, by John Ravenscroft [internet only] [Article including photos by Duncan Broomhead]
020 - Pace-eggers break out of their shell [by Eddie Cass, in Shave The Donkey, 27 Apr. 2001]
021 - Pace-Egging in Bury and Beyond [by Alan J. Seymour, 1994 - Archived]
022 - Play for Today [in Rochdale Observer, 10th Apr. 1974 - Redbrook School performance]New
023 - Rochdale Local Studies Library [History of the local Pace Egg plays - with many photos, old n.d.]New
024 - Rochdale Pace Egg Group of Over Sixty Years Ago [in Rochdale Observer, 4th Aug. 1956 - photo, old n.d.]New
025 - Southport Mummers / Bothy Folk Club [no longer performing] [photo]
026 - Stalmine Pace Eggers / Stalmine Parish Church Men's Group [perform Lancaster text]
027 - Stone the Crows
028 - The Nursery Rhymes of England [4th edition] [by James Orchard Halliwell, 1846 - Item CCCCLXXXIII - p.211 - "Here come I, Little David Doubt" (Christmas custom)]
029 - The Pace Egg and its Origin [in Rochdale Observer, 14th Apr. 1909]New
030 - The Pace Egg in Southern Lancashire [citation of Alan & Jean Seymour, in Folk Music Journal, Vol.2 No.4, 1973, pp.305-314]New
031 - 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]
032 - 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]
033 - 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]
034 - The Prescotian [Photo of Prescot Grammar School 1975 performance]
035 - Thelwall Mummers / Thelwall Morris [photos; script]
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