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.
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Christmas Pie
[A Christmas Entertainment' [by
Ridware Mummers at Ridware Theatre] performing Hamstall Ridware text; script]
008 *
Stafford Morris Men
[perform Burntwood, Penkridge & Weston (script by the late Johnny Burke?) texts; photo]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
026 *
Forsbrook Village
[Brief reminiscence of the Guisers from Mr. Dennis, probably in the 1920s]
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