Folk Play Links - West 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.
007 *
Heptonstall Pace Eggers
[photos; audio; video; cast list; programme and Photos of
Calder High School Pace Eggers]
012 *
Pace-egging Plays
[index to Gordon Ridgewell, in
FLS News, No.47, Nov. 2005, p.14 - citations of (
Bury Times, 22nd Mar. 2005, pp.10, 15) &
Hebden Bridge Times, 1st Apr. 2005, pp.1, 5]
015 *
A Glossary of the Dialect of Almondbury and Huddersfield
[comp. by late Rev Alfred Easther [formerly Head Master of the Grammar School of King James in Almondbury] & ed. by Rev Thomas Lees, 1883, pp.(58 - entry for 'Guisors' - (non-play);) 98 - entry for 'Peace Egg' - chapbook]
021 *
Christmas-Tup"
[by M. P. [Mabel Peacock], in
Notes and Queries, 9th Ser. Vol.II No.44, 29th Oct. 1898, p.348 - "old tup" at Hemsworth (& "old sow" in Lincolnshire)]
023 *
Curious Custom
[by Nathan [pseud], in
Notes and Queries:, [Ser.1] Vol.1 No.16, 16th Feb. 1850, p.245]
025 *
Easter Eggs
[by [J. Horsfall Turner], in
Yorkshire Folk-Lore Journal, Vol.I, 1888, p.140 - Raper Dancers perform Peace Egg]
033 *
Peace Egg
[by [J. Horsfall Turner], in
Yorkshire Folk-Lore Journal, Vol.I, 1888, pp.127-131; chapbook text; at Brighouse; [extract from
The Christmas Rhymers in the North of Ireland, by W.H. Patterson, in
Notes and Queries, 4th Ser. Vol.X No.260, 21st Dec. 1872, pp.487-488]]
034 *
Pease Eggers"
[by E.G. B., in
Notes and Queries, 9th Ser. Vol.III No.70, 29th Apr. 1899, p.334 - in south of Riding at Christmas; possesed Peace Egg chapbook for editor and correspondent]
035 *
Pease Eggers"
[by R.Hedger Wallace, in
Notes and Queries, 9th Ser. Vol.III No.66, 1st Apr. 1899, p.249 - citation of
Rambler, Vol.VII No.88, 21st Jan. 1899, p.299 - in north of Riding at Easter]
037 *
Review of "The Mummers' Play" by R.J.E. Tiddy
[citation of G.H. Cowling, in
Transactions of the Yorkshire Dialect Society, Vol.4 Pt.25, Apr. 1924, pp.30-33 - (Barmby on the Marsh) & Sleights; Drax & Headingley & Sowerby Bridge]
038 *
Setting the Pace
[extract from
Milltown Memories, Iss.3, Spring 2003 - Brief article with photos of Midgley Pace Eggers, 1930s.]
039 *
Some Northern Spring Customs
[by a reader, in
Northern Earth, No.90, p.11 - about Midgley Pace Eggers and Heptonstall Pace Eggers - Archived]
047 *
West Riding Sketches
[by James Burnley, 1875, pp.120-137 - 'A Night with the King of Egypt' - Woolborough [Bradford] text - superb reportage]
050 *
Yorkshire Sword Actors
[index to Thomas Garratt Forshaw, in
Yorkshire Notes and Queries, Vol.III No.10, Jan. 1907, p.303]
051 *
Yorkshire Sword-Actors
[by T.M. Fallow, in
Antiquary, Vol.XXXI No.?, May 1895, pp.138-142 - Leeds fragment & photos]
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