Folk Play Links - South Yorkshire, 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 * Doncaster Mummers / Green Oak Morris Men [perform Hooton Pagnell text; photos; script; cast list]
002 * Harthill Morris [perform Tup text - Harthill Carnival Society no longer performing]
003 * Hoyland Springwood Primary School [perform 'Martha and the Milton Monster' script; photos]
004 * Sheffield - Edale Rambler Folk Train [Photos of Handsworth Traditional Sword Dancers]
005 * Sullivan's Sword [Owd ¡®Oss Mummers version of script, Apr. 1986 - based on text from Whiston near Rotherham published in Sorrelsykes, by Harold Armitage, 1913, pp.26-34]
006 * The "Wicked Stix" Mummers' Play [Script of Wicked Stix]
007 * Wath upon Dearne Morris Team [photo; programme]
008 * Wicked Stix [photos]

Publications

009 * A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, [by James Orchard Halliwell, 1847, Vol.I p.97 - entry for 'Assidue' - "¡­ a species of yellow tinsel much used by the mummers at Christmas," - see [The Hallamshire Glossary, by Rev Joseph Hunter, 1829, p.6 - entry for 'Assidue'; British Library Add. Ms. 24542 - Keynsham text]]
010 * A Glossary of Words used in the Neighbourhood of Sheffield [extract from Sidney Oldall Addy, 1888, p.153 - entry for 'Mum' - plus their song 'A mumming we will go', with tune. Includes the engraving of Mummers from The Book of Days, ed. by R. Chambers, Vol.II, 1864, pp.739-741]
011 * A Glossary of Words used in the Neighbourhood of Sheffield [by Sidney Oldall Addy, 1888, p.153 - entry for 'Mum' - [possesses Walker Peace Egg chapbook?]]
012 * Children Calling Children [in Mission Together, Iss.12 - about Sacred Heart School performance, with photo.]
013 * Christmas as it used to be [in Old Heeley, No.8, Christmas 1987, p.3 - Fragmentary account of a Derby Tup play - with text.]
014 * Christmas Rimers in Ulster [by Harry Hems, in Notes and Queries, 11th Ser. Vol.VII No.170, 29th Mar. 1913, p.256 - Sheffield fragment]
015 * Costumes and Characteristics, : Christmas Customs [by [Arthur Jewitt ?], in Northern Star, or Yorkshire Magazine, Vol.I No.VI, Dec. 1817, pp.439-440; 402 - plate 2 [by Orlando Jewitt ?] with "Mummers or Guisers" - [at Kimberworth ?]]
016 * Epistles from Deep Seas [by J.E. Patterson, 1915, p.121 - How it reminded me of ¡­ "The Old Horse" and "The Old Tup!" - at [Barnsley ?]]
017 * FTX-212 - Two Jolly Miners : George Hoyland & Louis Wroe [CD for sale: Audio about Ecclesfield Old Tup Play, 1959]
018 * Hallamshire. : The History and Topography of the Parish of Sheffield in the County of York: [by Joseph Hunter, 1819, p.238 - 'Township of Brightside-Byerlow']
019 * Household Tales with Other Traditional Remains [by Sidney Oldall Addy, 1895, pp.xx-xxi - [Norton] Old Tup fragment]
020 * My Vagabondage [by J.E. Patterson, 1911, pp.42-43 - "The Peace Egg" at Barnsley]
021 * Picture Sheffield [image archive] [Photos of Old Tup at Handsworth]
022 * Reminiscences of Rotherham [by George Gummer, 1927, p.36 - Old Tup]
023 * The Hallamshire Glossary [by Rev Joseph Hunter, 1829, p.67 - entry for 'Mummers']
024 * The Lilac and the Rose [by Susan Tweedsmuir [Susan Buchan], 1952, pp.67-68 - [Grenoside] at Wortley Hall - citation of Pall Mall Gazette]
025 * The Sheffield Christmas of Bygone Days [in The Sheffield and Rotherham Independent, 21st Dec. 1872 - Mentions Mummers, the Poor Old Horse and the Derby Tup plays, as well as sword dancing.]
026 * Twelfth Night on the Moors [by [Harry Cust], in Pall Mall Gazette, Vol.60 No.9295, 8th Jan. 1895, pp.1a-2ab - Grenoside [at Wortley Hall] - see above - Subscription required for Gale: 19th Century British Library Newspapers]

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027 * Handsworth Traditional Sword Dancers [programme]New

[General]

028 * NoiseFactory Synthetic Folk Project: Poor Old Horse [Texts of the song/play from North Elmshall and Sheffield]
029 * Sanderson - Bradfield and Beyond [family rhyme]
030 * Sheffield Forum [Sheffield fragment]
031 * Sheffield Youth Theatre [List with 1979 performances]
032 * Wentworth Youth Theatre [photos]

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