Bibliography of Nottinghamshire Folk Plays & Related Customs
Nottinghamshire Weekly Express (1920)
Source:
[Anon. (Auth.)]
LOCAL NOTES AND QUERIES : NOTTS. CHRISTMAS CUSTOMS IN THE TIME OF GEORGE III
*Nottinghamshire Weekly Express, *17th Dec.1920

Article describing Christmas customs in Notts. The information is taken from a correspondent writing to "Notes and Queries" 34 years previously with reference to North Notts 50 years before that. This resembles the correspondent referred to in Nottinghamshire Weekly Express (1906a).

Included is the following: "During the evening the procedings were varied with visits from Christmas singers and the mummers, all of which were well entertained."

Index Terms:
Locations: North Notts.
Years: Took place 1830's
Subjects: Christmas Eve; Mummers; Christmas SingersNotes & Queries (c.1886)
Archives: Ref.: TD00193; Local Notes & Queries Scrapbook, Vol.6, pp.209-210
Indexed by Idwal Jones. Last updated Oct.2004
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