Folk Play Links - Nottinghamshire, 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 * Black Pig Border Morris [perform Selston text and also a composed script; photos; script; CD for sale; DVD for sale]
002 * Celebrating an ancient tradition [in Eastwood & Kimberley Advertiser, 25th Jan. 2002 - about Calverton Real Ale and Plough Play Preservation Society (CRAPPPS)]
003 * Foresters Morris Men [photos; programme; scripts (including Tollerton text)]
004 * Lady Bay Revellers [photos]
005 * Ranby House School [photo]
006 * Scrapbook Flair [Photos of the Company of Owd 'Oss]
007 * Sullivan's Sword [Owd ¡®Oss Mummers version of Farnsfield script, Apr. 1986]
008 * Sullivan's Sword [photo]
009 * Tollerton Online [Photos of Tollerton Plough Boys, 1952 and 2002]

Publications

010 * A History of Nottinghamshire [by Cornelius Brown, 1891, p.275 - [Lowdham] plough bullocks fragment]
011 * A History of Nottinghamshire [Cheap edition] [by Cornelius Brown, 1896 - [Lowdham] plough bullocks fragment]
012 * Abbotsford, and Newstead Abbey [by [Washington Irving], 1835, pp.162-164 - (allegedly Christmas mummers at Barlborough Hall, Barlborough +) allegedly Plough Monday at Newstead Abbey, Newstead]
013 * Christmas Carols: Waits: Guisers [by Thomas Ratcliffe, in Notes and Queries, 10th Ser. Vol.II No.52, 24th Dec. 1904, pp.504-505 - "Saint George", "Th' owd Tup" and "T' owd Hoss"]
014 * Christmas Eve in North Notts Fifty Years Ago [by Thomas Ratcliffe, in Notes & Queries, 7th Ser. Vol.II No.52, 25th Dec. 1886, pp.501-502 - mummers]
015 * Christmas-Tup" [by Thomas Ratcliffe, in Notes and Queries, 9th Ser. Vol.II No.52, 24th Dec. 1898, p.511 - "t'owd tup" fragment & "th' poor owd hoss"; citation of The Ballads & Songs of Derbyshire, ed. by Llewellynn Jewitt, 1867, pp.115-119]
016 * Dun Yer Want Guysers?" [in Haggs Farm Preservation Society Newsletter, No.12, Jun. 1993, pp.3-4 - paraphrasing A Prelude, by D.H. Lawrence; citation of Selston 1913, by Storer, 1983]
017 * Highways and Byways in Nottinghamshire [by J.B. Firth, 1916, p.385 - at Norwell]
018 * Long Live the Guisers" [by Maurice William Holmes, in Haggs Farm Preservation Society Newsletter, No.12, Jun. 1993, pp.6-10 - Underwood text - + photo of Underwood Guysers, 1997 (50th anniversary reunion)]
019 * Notes about Notts. [ed. by Cornelius Brown, 1874, pp.83-85 - south Nottinghamshire fragment]
020 * Nottinghamshire Facts and Fictions [2nd edition] [coll. & ed. by John Potter Briscoe, 1876, pp.6-8 - "plough bullocking" at Shelford; extract from Notes about Notts., ed. by Cornelius Brown, 1874, pp.83-85; extract from Abbotsford, and Newstead Abbey, by [Washington Irving], 1835, pp.164-165]
021 * On Ancient Customs and Sports of the County of Nottingham [by Llewellynn Jewitt, in Journal of the British Archaeological Association, Vol.VIII, 1853, p.237]
022 * Plough Bullocks' and Other Plough Monday Customs in the Nottingham Area, 1800-1920 [by Peter Millington, in Transactions of the Thoroton Society, Vol.109, 2005, pp.127-137]
023 * Plough Bullocks' and Other Plough Monday Customs in the Nottingham Area, 1800-1920 [citation of Peter Millington, in Transactions of the Thoroton Society, Vol.109, 2005, pp.127-137]
024 * Pubs in Underwood and Bagthorpe [by Maurice Holmes, in Booze News, Spring 2004, pp.8-10 - Includes recollections of performing the Guisers at the Sandhills pub, Underwood, Christmas 1946/47.]
025 * Review of "History of Nottinghamshire" by Cornelius Brown [by L. Chaworth-Musters, in Antiquary, Vol.XXV No.?, Jan. 1892, p.45 - "Plough Bullocks" at Cropwell [Bishop & Butler] and Tithby [sic]]
026 * St George Mumming Play [by Thomas Ratcliffe, in Notes and Queries, 12th Ser. Vol.I No.26, 24th Jun. 1916, p.515 - possesses 3 chapbooks; his collection has (Derbyshire text &) Nottinghamshire text; and unlocated fragments with "The Owd Tup" and "The Owd Hoss"]
027 * The Nottinghamshire Village Book [extract from comp. Nottinghamshire Federation of Women's Institutes, 1989, pp.186-187 - 'Woodborough' - fragment]
028 * The Victoria History of the County of Nottingham. Vol.2 [ed. by William Page, 1910, p.412 - 'Old-Time Sports', by F. Bonnett [- paraphrasing Notes about Notts., ed. by Cornelius Brown, 1874, pp.83-85]]
029 * The Villagers Remember [citation of Arthur Cossons, in Transactions of the Thoroton Society of Nottinghamshire, Vol.LXVI, 1962, pp.]
030 * Then and Now [2nd edition] [by Dean [of Rochester, Samuel Reynolds] Hole, 1901, pp.150-152 - Caunton morris dancers text]

[General]

031 * Muskham Players [cast of 'Tales of Muskham', 2000 - A historical drama including the local Plough Monday play.]
032 * Nottinghamshire Mummers and Guisers [by Fran Earp, Title of Jul. 2005 talk to Empyrean]

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