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.


Groups

001 * BBC Bradford & West Yorkshire - Heptonstall's egg-stravaganza! [with David Burnop - about Heptonstall Pace Eggers]
002 * BBC News - Why Easter means sword play to me [by David Burnop - about Heptonstall Pace Eggers]
003 * Bradshaw Mummers (/ Bradshaw Tavern Folk Club) [photos; programme]
004 * FTX-109 - Come in, Old Toss Pot : West Yorkshire Pace-Eggers [CD for sale: Audio of Dent Pace Egg Play & Midgley Pace Eggers, 22nd Nov. 1954 & 10th Apr. 1952. Includes photo.]
005 * GENUKI : Photograph of Heptonstall Old and New Churches [Photo of Heptonstall Pace Eggers]
006 * Halifax Traditions Festival [Photos of Bradshaw Mummers, 2001 and 2002]
007 * Heptonstall Pace Eggers [photos; audio; video; cast list; programme and Photos of Calder High School Pace Eggers]
008 * Holbeck Moor Mummers / Grove Folk Club [photos; programme]
009 * Homer Sykes Collection [Photos of Midgley Pace Eggers]
010 * Leeds Morris Men [photo; script of an Old Horse play]
011 * Midgley Pace Eggers / Calder High School [perform Midgley text; photos; programme]
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]
013 * The Long Company / Ryburn Three Step [photos; programme; script]

Publications

014 * A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, [2nd edition] [by James Orchard Halliwell, 1850, pp.667-668 Vol.II - entry for 'Rapier-Dance' - extract from Archaeologia, Vol.XVII, 1814, pp.155-156]
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]
016 * A List of Provincial Words in Use at Wakefield in Yorkshire; [coll. by William Stott Banks, 1865, p.48 - entry for 'Mummers'; p.53 - 'Ploo Stots'; p.56 - 'Raper Doncers']
017 * A Yorkshire Folk-Play and its Analogues [by F.W. Moorman, in Essays and Studies, Vol.II, 1911, pp.134-157 - at [Headingley]; Peace Egg chapbook text, [which he possesses?]]
018 * A Yorkshire Folk-Play and its Analogues [index to F.W. Moorman, in Essays and Studies, Vol.II, 1911, pp.134-157 - at [Headingley]; Peace Egg chapbook text, [which he possesses?]]
019 * Calderdale Calendar Customs [citation of Gary Stringfellow, in Transactions : Halifax Antiquarian Society, 1987]
020 * Christmas Customs, Sports and Pastimes [in Bradfordian:, No.3, Dec. 1860, p.47 - at Clayton]
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)]
022 * Chronicles and Stories of Old Bingley [by Harry Speight, 1898, p.275 - (mummers (non-play);) The Peace Egg, or Sword Dancers]
023 * Curious Custom [by Nathan [pseud], in Notes and Queries:, [Ser.1] Vol.1 No.16, 16th Feb. 1850, p.245]
024 * Dialect of the West Riding of Yorkshire: A Short History of Leeds and Other Towns [by Samuel Dyer, 1891, p.101 - entry for 'The Peace-Egg'; p.126 - Alice Man[n] sold her Peace-egg and Bold Slasher chapbooks in the Central Market]
025 * Easter Eggs [by [J. Horsfall Turner], in Yorkshire Folk-Lore Journal, Vol.I, 1888, p.140 - Raper Dancers perform Peace Egg]
026 * Eminent Literary and Scientific Men of Great Britain and Ireland, Vol.I [by [S.A. Dunham ?], 1836, pp.183-184 - 'John Heywood' - "on the borders of Lancashire and Yorkshire, on Good Friday"]
027 * Hebden Bridge Literary and Scientific Society : Local History Collection [Ref. Slides] [430, 431, 432]
028 * Hebden Bridge Literary and Scientific Society : Local History Collection [Ref. YDPE]
029 * Jack Uttley Photo Library [Refs. 33106 & 33116; 83318] [Photos of Pace Eggers & spectators at Hebden Bridge, 1910; Midgley Pace Eggers, 1952]
030 * Memorials of Old Yorkshire [ed. by T.M. Fallow, 1909, pp.294, 286 - 'Yorkshire Folk-Lore', by M.W.E. Fowler - "mumming"]
031 * Mitchell Library Manuscripts Collection, State Library of New South Wales [Ref. MLMSS 462/1] [Reminiscences of Anna Frances Walker' - mummers at Royds [sic] Hall [SE356257], Royds Green, circa 1800]
032 * Pace-Egging Time : The Miracle Play at Midgley [citation of Sydney Moorhouse, in Boy's Own Paper, Vol.LX Pt.7, Apr. 1938, p.371]
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]
036 * Rambles about Morley, [by William Smith, Jun., 1866, p.109]
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]
040 * Survey of English Dialects (SED) Incidental Material [Refs. (6Y4; 6Y21;) 6Y27; (6Y29; 6Y32)] [Pace Egging Songs at Egton; Pace Egging Songs at Heptonstall;) Christmas Mumming at Carleton; (Mumming at Golcar; Plough Bullocks at Ecclesfield)]
041 * The Dialect of Leeds and its Neighbourhood, [by [C. Clough Robinson], 1862, pp.364-370 - entry for 'Mummers']
042 * The Diary of Ralph Thoresby, [ed. by Rev Joseph Hunter, 1830, Vol.II p.198 - Mummers (non-play?) at Leeds, 1713]
043 * The History and Antiquities of Morley, [Subscribers' copy] [by William Smith, 1876, p.93 - "Mummers" played "peace-egg"]
044 * The History of the Scottish Stage, [by John Jackson, 1793, pp.409-411 - Keighley fragment]
045 * The Little Hill Farm : Calder Valley [by W.B. Crump, [1951], pp.72; 74-75 - Pace Eggers at Midgley; with Harry Waterworth, possesses J. Harkness chapbook]
046 * Two Essays on the Dialect of Upper Calderdale [citation of F.H. Marsden, in Transactions of the Yorkshire Dialect Society, Vol.4 Pt.22, Jan. 1921, pp.6-16 [sic]]
047 * West Riding Sketches [by James Burnley, 1875, pp.120-137 - 'A Night with the King of Egypt' - Woolborough [Bradford] text - superb reportage]
048 * When I was a Boy in England [contents of Ivan G. Grimshaw, 1931, Chap.IX - 'The Peace Egg Players' at Shipley]
049 * Wortley-de-Leeds : a history of an ancient township [extract from William Benn, 1926 - includes a brief description of the performance of 'The Peace Egg' about 1875 - Archived]
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]

[General]

052 * Burley Millennium Theatre Group [List with Jul. 1998 performance]
053 * Calderdale Local Studies Library [Brief history of the local Pace Egg plays - with photo]
054 * Charlestown History Group [Photo of the Eastwood Players, 1935]
055 * Huddersfield One [Essay about pace eggers in and around Huddersfield]
056 * Otley Community Players [Mention of 1999 performance of mumming only]
057 * Pete Coe [member of The Long Company] [performs folk plays, and runs folk drama workshops at schools. Includes photos.]

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