Folk Play Links - Staffordshire, 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 * A History of the County of Stafford, Vol.14 [1990, pp.159-170 - 'Lichfield : Social and cultural activities' - "mumming" - citation of Lichfield Morris Men]
002 * Armitage Mummers / Lichfield Morris Men [perform Armitage text]
003 * Christmas Pie [A Christmas Entertainment' [by Ridware Mummers at Ridware Theatre] performing Hamstall Ridware text; script]
004 * Green Man's Morrris and Sword Club (/ Avoncroft Folk Dance Group) [photos; programme; script]
005 * Ridware Mummers / Ridware Theatre [perform Hamstall Ridware text; photos]
006 * Rolleston on Dove Special Events Committee (RODSEC) - Queen's Golden Jubilee, 2002 [Rolleston Mummers performing [Lancaster at the top of the page] Rolleston [at the bottom] text; photos]
007 * Rolleston on Dove Special Events Committee (RODSEC) - Trafalgar Day, 2005 [Rolleston Mummers performing Rolleston text; photos]
008 * Stafford Morris Men [perform Burntwood, Penkridge & Weston (script by the late Johnny Burke?) texts; photo]
009 * Staffordshire Past Track [image archive] [Photo of Uttoxeter Guisers]
010 * Woodman Folk Club [Formerly, mummers play]

Publications

011 * Carl Chinn Archive [Refs. 683 & 684] [Whiteheath text, circa 1900, via Tirley, Gloucestershire?]
012 * Christmas Carol [by ¦Å.¦Ó. ¦Ê. [E.T. K.], in Notes and Queries, Ser.3 Vol.II No.32, 9th Aug. 1862, p.103 - morris-dancers in north Staffordshire]
013 * Guisers' Play, Songs, and Rhymes from Staffordshire [by Charlotte S. Burne, in Folk-Lore Journal, Vol.IV No.4, Oct? 1886, pp.350-357 - Eccleshall text; citation of Shropshire Folk-Lore, p.483 - at Eccleshall]
014 * History of Wetton, Thor's Cave, and Ecton Mines [index of Roberts, 1900, pp.50, 65 - "Guisers (custom)"]
015 * Johnny Burke [in The Folk Mag - Mummers at Weston-upon-Trent]
016 * Lectures, Verses, Speeches, Reminiscences, & c. [by William Challinor, 1891, p.34 - A Few Gleanings Connected with the 'History of Leek', in Staffordshire Sentinel, 26th Mar. 1864 - ("Soul caking", Plough Monday,) guisers at Christmas]
017 * Life of Lady Georgiana Fullerton [by Henry James Coleridge, from the French of Mrs Augustus Craven, 1888, p.9 - "mummers" at Tixall Hall, Tixall, 1818]
018 * Links with the Past [by Mrs Charles Bagot, 1901, pp.189-190, 157 - extract from journal, by Miss Mary Bagot [daughter of Rev Walter Bagot] - (All Soul's Eve;) Morrice-dancers; Abbots Bromley horn dance; Rugeley seen at Blithfield [Hall, Admaston]]
019 * Mummers [by J. G., in Antiquarian Magazine + Bibliographer, Vol.III No.13, [Jan.] 1883, pp.105-106 - mummers at Little Aston]
020 * Songs [by Charlotte S. Burne, in Folk-Lore Journal, Vol.IV No.3, Jul? 1886, pp.259-261 - 'Tinker's Song' - sung at Eccleshall (& Newport, Shropshire) - citation of Shropshire Folk-Lore, pt.III]
021 * Staffordshire Superstitions [by Dorothea Townshend, in Folk-Lore, Vol.VIII No.1, Mar. 1897, p.70 - at Hilderstone]
022 * The Folklore of Staffordshire [by C.S. Burne, in Journal of the British Archaeological Association, New Ser. Vol.II, 1896, p.31 - "Guisers" at Eccleshall, at Cheadle & about Rugeley]
023 * The Rural Life of England: [by William Howitt, 1838, Vol.II pp.216-217 - at Calden-Low [or Caldon-Low or Cauldon-Low]]
024 * The Second International Folk-Lore Congress, 1891 [eds. by Joseph Jacobs & Alfred Nutt, 1892, (p.436 - for what is now Thomas Fairman Ordish Collection 'Catalogue of the Exhibition of Objects Connected with Folk-Lore in the Rooms of the Society of Antiquaries, Burlington House : Three Pace Eggs (Easter Eggs) from Woodbroughton, near Cartmel, Furness' - "pace-eggers" at Field Broughton & Lowick;) '... : Mummers' Plays in MS., written for Miss Burne by the peasant mummers' / pp.463-464 - 'Conversaziane : 9.55 : The Guisers' Play' - reproduction of it as at Eccleshall]
025 * The Staffordshire Encyclopaedia [by Tim Cockin - about Uttoxeter Guisers [no longer performing?]]

[General]

026 * Forsbrook Village [Brief reminiscence of the Guisers from Mr. Dennis, probably in the 1920s]
027 * Longnor Players [List with Feb. 2002 performance]
028 * Weston - A Brief History, John[ny] Burke, 1975 [internet only] [Guizers performed at the School from 1968. Possibly a modern composition.]

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