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Past Folk Play Performances - Hampshire
Where a group's name is given as a hyperlink, its website may provide further information and/or photographs. |
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Hampshire, England
| Date | Group | Time | Venue | Contact |
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Milestones' Mummers | 12:30 | Basingstoke, Milestones Museum
[Milestones is Hampshire's Living History Museum. Their team of costumed interpreters combined 3 Hampshire Mummers' plays and performed these outside the museum's working pub during the Christmas period.] |
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Milestones' Mummers | 12:30 | Basingstoke, Milestones Museum
[Milestones is Hampshire's Living History Museum. Their team of costumed interpreters combined 3 Hampshire Mummers' plays and performed these outside the museum's working pub during the Christmas period.] |
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Southampton University Players | - | Botley, Manor Farm
[Performing a Mummers' Play as part of the Christmas Fair] |
Meri Mackney |
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Stourvale Mummers | 20:15 | Ringwood, Inn on the Furlong | Chris Mason 01202 553294 |
| - | - | 21:00 | Avon, New Queen | - |
| - | - | 22:00 | Sopley, The Woolpack | - |
| The Melstock Band | - | Winchester, Tower Arts Centre
[Christmas Tour 2002. A professional stage show of seasonal festivities of the English Countryside, with stories, dances, mummers, wassailers, carol singers, and humstrums, drawing on Thomas Hardy and country poets.] |
Dave Townsend 01962 867986 |
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King John's Morris Men | 21:10 | Netley Abbey, Woolston Folk Club, Prince Consort
[Mummers' play tour. All times are approximate!] |
John Miller 023 8055 2302 |
| - | - | 21:50 | Bursledon, Jolly Sailor | - |
| - | - | 22:30 | Bursledon, The Vine | - |
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King John's Morris Men | 20:30 | Durley, Robin Hood
[Mummers' play tour. All times are approximate!] |
John Miller 023 8055 2302 |
| - | - | 21:10 | Upham, The Woodman | - |
| - | - | 21:50 | Shedfield, The Wheatsheaf | - |
| - | - | 22:30 | Swanmore, New Inn | - |
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King John's Morris Men | 20:00 | Romsey, Tudor Rose
[Mummers' play tour. All times are approximate!] |
John Miller 023 8055 2302 |
| Milestones' Mummers | 12:30 | Basingstoke, Milestones Museum
[Milestones is Hampshire's Living History Museum. Their team of costumed interpreters combined 3 Hampshire Mummers' plays and performed these outside the museum's working pub during the Christmas period.] |
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| Overton Mummers | 14:00 | Freefolk, nr Whitchurch, Watership Down pub | Tom Hanley 01256 770384 |
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King John's Morris Men | 20:30 | Swanmore, Rising Sun | John Miller 023 8055 2302 |
| - | - | 21:10 | Swanmore, Bricklayers Arms | - |
| - | - | 21:50 | Lower Upham, The Brushmakers | - |
| - | - | 22:30 | Dundridge, Hampshire Bowman | - |
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Crookham Mummers | 12:00 | Crookham Village, George & Lobster
[Famous for it feroucious sword fights, ad libs, topical references and audience participation, the play has been performed every boxing day for 40 years and prior to that virtually every year since about 1880, when the play was probably lifted from another local village. Truly traditional in that the performers tend not to Morris dancers, but solely Mummer once a year.] |
Tom Dommett 01252-626951 |
| - | - | 12:45 | Crookham Village, Black Horse | - |
| - | - | 13:30 | Crookham Village, The Crescent Green | - |
| - | - | 14:00 | Dogmersfield, Queens Head | - |
| King John's Morris Men | 12:00 | Bursledon, The Vine
[Mummers' play] |
John Miller 023 8055 2302 |
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| Overton Mummers | 13:00 | Overton, Community Centre car park | Tom Hanley 01256 770384 |
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| - | - | 14:00 | Overton, The Greyhound, Winchester Street | - |
| Yateley Mummers | 12:00 | Yateley, Dog and Partridge | Alan Green | |
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Yateley Mummers | 12:00 | Hartley Wintney, The Cricketers | Alan Green |
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Yateley Mummers | 19:45 | Farnborough, The Swan | Alan Green |
| - | - | 20:30 | Aldershot, La Fontaine | - |
| - | - | 22:15 | Bucks Horn Oak, Half Way House | - |
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Milestones' Mummers | 12:00 | Basingstoke, Milestones Living History Museum
[A brand new interpretation written specifically for Milestones Museum of the traditional Saint George and the Dragon Mummers play.] |
Godfrey Thomas 01256 403900 |
[View This Day Only] |
Milestones' Mummers | 12:00 | Basingstoke, Milestones Living History Museum
[Incorporated are the expected challenges, sword fights, death and revival performed by characters dressed in traditional fashion, but with words appropriate to modern times and to the Milestones setting.] |
Godfrey Thomas 01256 403900 |
[View This Day Only] |
Milestones' Mummers | 12:00 | Basingstoke, Milestones Living History Museum
[Mixing Panto with danger and drama.] |
Godfrey Thomas 01256 403900 |
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Milestones' Mummers | 12:00 | Basingstoke, Milestones Living History Museum
[Find out if Percy the Dragon does survive to haunt the Museum?] |
Godfrey Thomas 01256 403900 |
[View This Day Only] |
Milestones' Mummers | 12:00 | Basingstoke, Milestones Living History Museum
[A brand new interpretation written specifically for Milestones Museum of the traditional Saint George and the Dragon Mummers play.] |
Godfrey Thomas 01256 403900 |
[View This Day Only] |
Southampton University Players | 12:15 | Botley, Manor Farm
[Performing a Mummers' Play as part of the Christmas Fair] |
Meri Mackney 02380 551494 |
[View This Day Only] |
Milestones' Mummers | 12:00 | Basingstoke, Milestones Living History Museum
[Incorporated are the expected challenges, sword fights, death and revival performed by characters dressed in traditional fashion, but with words appropriate to modern times and to the Milestones setting.] |
Godfrey Thomas 01256 403900 |
| Stourvale Mummers | 20:15 | Ringwood, Inn on the Furlong
[Stourvale Mummers are Bourne River Morris in winter rainment. They perform a traditional Mummers' play, from Sixpenny Handley, and raise money for the benefit of local children by doing so.] |
Chris Mason 01202 553294 |
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| - | - | 20:45 | Hightown, nr Ringwood, Elm Tree | - |
| - | - | 22:00 | Sopley, The Woolpack | - |
[View This Day Only] |
Milestones' Mummers | 12:00 | Basingstoke, Milestones Living History Museum
[Mixing Panto with danger and drama.] |
Godfrey Thomas 01256 403900 |
[View This Day Only] |
King John's Morris Men | 20:45 | Netley, Woolston Folk Club. Prince Consort
[Performing a tradional-ish Mummers Play.] |
John Miller 023 8055 2302 |
| - | - | 21:15 | Southampton, Fo'c'sle Folk Club. Duke of Wellington | - |
| - | - | 22:00 | Old Bursledon, The Vine | - |
[View This Day Only] |
Milestones' Mummers | 12:00 | Basingstoke, Milestones Living History Museum
[Find out if Percy the Dragon does survive to haunt the Museum?] |
Godfrey Thomas 01256 403900 |
[View This Day Only] |
King John's Morris Men | 20:30 | Romsey, Tudor Rose
[Performing a tradional-ish Mummers Play.] |
John Miller 023 8055 2302 |
| Milestones' Mummers | 12:00 | Basingstoke, Milestones Living History Museum
[A brand new interpretation written specifically for Milestones Museum of the traditional Saint George and the Dragon Mummers play.] |
Godfrey Thomas 01256 403900 |
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| Otterbourne Mummers | 15:00 | Otterbourne, Park Lane | Paul Marsh 01962 713608 |
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| Overton Mummers | 14:00 | Overton, Watership Down, Freefolk
[Performing the tradtional Overton Mummers play.] |
Tom Hanley | |
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King John's Morris Men | 20:30 | Curdridge, The Cricketers
[Performing a tradional-ish Mummers Play.] |
John Miller 023 8055 2302 |
| - | - | 21:10 | Durley, Robin Hood | - |
| - | - | 21:50 | Shedfield, The Wheatsheaf | - |
| - | - | 22:30 | Upham, The Brushmakers | - |
[View This Day Only] |
King John's Morris Men | 20:30 | Boorley Green, Pear Tree
[Performing a tradional-ish Mummers Play.] |
John Miller 023 8055 2302 |
| - | - | 21:10 | Swanmore, New Inn | - |
| - | - | 21:50 | Lower Upham, The Woodman | - |
| - | - | 22:30 | Dundridge, Hampshire Bowman | - |
| Milestones' Mummers | 12:00 | Basingstoke, Milestones Living History Museum
[Incorporated are the expected challenges, sword fights, death and revival performed by characters dressed in traditional fashion, but with words appropriate to modern times and to the Milestones setting.] |
Godfrey Thomas 01256 403900 |
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[View This Day Only] |
Milestones' Mummers | 12:00 | Basingstoke, Milestones Living History Museum
[Mixing Panto with danger and drama.] |
Godfrey Thomas 01256 403900 |
[View This Day Only] |
Crookham Mummers | 12:00 | Crookham Village, George & Lobster
[Famous for it feroucious sword fights, ad libs, topical references and audience participation, the play has been performed every boxing day for 40 years and prior to that virtually every year since about 1880, when the play was probably lifted from another local village. Truly traditional in that the performers tend not to Morris dancers, but solely Mummer once a year.] |
Tom Dommett 01252-626951 |
| - | - | 12:45 | Crookham Village, Black Horse | - |
| - | - | 13:30 | Crookham Village, The Crescent Green | - |
| - | - | 14:00 | Dogmersfield, Queens Head | - |
| King John's Morris Men | 12:00 | Old Bursledon, The Vine
[Performing a tradional-ish Mummers Play.] |
John Miller 023 8055 2302 |
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| Overton Mummers | 13:00 | Overton, Community Centre
[Performing the tradtional Overton Mummers play.] |
Tom Hanley | |
| - | - | 14:00 | Overton, The Greyhound | - |
| Yateley Mummers | 12:00 | Yateley, Dog & Partridge
[Yateley Mummers play is a variant of the Bramshill & other north Hants texts & is being performed for it's 28th year.] |
Paul 'Monty' Montague 01276-20817 |
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Farnborough Mummers | 15:00 | Alresford, Alresford Station
[30th Anniversary Performances of the Farnborough Mummers' George Play] |
Duncan McGregor 01420 87680 |
| - | - | 16:00 | Alresford, Alresford Town Square | - |
| - | - | 19:30 | Alresford, Horse and Groom | - |
| - | - | 21:00 | Cheriton, Flower Pots | - |
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Yateley Mummers | 12:30 | Hartley Wintney, The Cricketers
[Yateley Mummers play is a variant of the Bramshill & other north Hants texts & is being performed for it's 28th year.] |
Paul 'Monty' Montague 01276-20817 |
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Overton Mummers | 13:00 | Overton, Victorian Sheep Fair
[Overton Mummer normally only appear once a year on Boxing Day but will be performing during the 2 day Sheep Fair - a Victorian street festival in their home village of Overton.] |
Tom H |
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Overton Mummers | 13:00 | Overton, Victorian Sheep Fair
[Overton Mummer normally only appear once a year on Boxing Day but will be performing during the 2 day Sheep Fair - a Victorian street festival in their home village of Overton.] |
Tom H |
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King John's Morris Men | 21:00 | Southampton, Focsle Folk Club, Duke of Wellington
[Mummers' play tour] |
John Miller 023 8055 2302 |
| - | - | 22:00 | Bursledon, The Vine | - |
| Overton Mummers | 20:00 | Basingstoke, Jolly Farmer, Cliddesden
[Traditional mummers play collected in 1913 but changes every year! Music and carols in the Greyhound afterwards.] |
Tom Hanley 01256 770384 |
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King John's Morris Men | 20:45 | Shawford, The Bridge
[Mummers' play tour] |
John Miller 023 8055 2302 |
| - | - | 21:30 | Colden Common, Dog and Crook | - |
| - | - | 22:15 | Colden Common, Rising Sun | - |
| Prize Old Mummers | 20:00 | Emsworth, Kings Arms
[A yearly reworking of old mummer themes with modern ideas and language. For fun and charity.] |
Dick Cady 02392 797996 |
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| Yateley Mummers | 14:00 | North Waltham, near Basingstoke, The Fox
[Accompanied by morris dancers] |
monty 01276 - 20817 |
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| - | - | 15:00 | Basingstoke, Milestones Museum | - |
[View This Day Only] |
King John's Morris Men | 21:00 | Romsey, Tudor Rose
[Mummers' play] |
John Miller 023 8055 2302 |
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Stourvale Mummers | 20:15 | Ringwood, Inn on the Furlong
[Stourvale are a revival team in their 25th year, performing the Sixpenny Handley play.] |
Alf Woodall 01202 825849 |
| - | - | 20:45 | Hightown, nr Ringwood, Elm Tree | - |
| - | - | 21:30 | Sopley, The Woolpack | - |
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King John's Morris Men | 20:00 | Curdridge, The Cricketers
[Mummers' play tour] |
John Miller 023 8055 2302 |
| - | - | 20:30 | Boorley Green, Pear Tree | - |
| - | - | 21:30 | Lower Upham, The Woodman (TBC) | - |
| - | - | 22:30 | Upham, The Brushmakers | - |
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King John's Morris Men | 20:00 | Swanmore, New Inn
[Mummers' play tour] |
John Miller 023 8055 2302 |
| - | - | 20:30 | Shedfield, Samuels Rest | - |
| - | - | 21:00 | Shedfield, The Wheatsheaf | - |
| - | - | 22:15 | Dundridge, Hampshire Bowman | - |
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Crookham Mummers | 12:00 | Crookham Village, George & Lobster
[The Play has been going fairly continuously for well over 100 years in the village and every Boxing Day since 1964. The text is older, and was probably borrowed for another nearby village. Apparently the only mummers play where Father Christmas is killed. Full of full blooded sword fights, local jokes, rustic humour and ad libs. Mentioned in all the best guuidebooks on mumming.] |
Jeff Brooks 01252 812482 |
| - | - | 12:45 | Crookham Village, Black Horse | - |
| - | - | 13:30 | Crookham Village, Crescent Green | - |
| - | - | 14:00 | Dogmersfield, Queens Head | - |
| King John's Morris Men | 12:30 | Bursledon, The Vine
[Mummers' play] |
John Miller 2380552302 |
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| Overton Mummers | 13:00 | Overton, Overton Community Centre Car Park [or St Mary's Hall if wet]
[Traditional mummers play collected in 1913 but changes every year! Music and carols in the Greyhound afterwards.] |
Tom Hanley 01256 770384 |
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| - | - | 14:00 | Overton, The Greyhound, Winchester Street | - |
| Yateley Mummers | 12:00 | Yateley, Dog & Partridge
[Accompanied by morris dancers] |
monty 01276 - 20817 |
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Yateley Mummers | 12:30 | Hartley Wintney, The Cricketers
[Accompanied by morris dancers] |
monty 01276 - 20817 |
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Yateley Mummers | 20:00 | Hartley Wintney, 12th Night Tour
[TBA] |
monty 01276 - 20817 |
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Prize Old Mummers | 20:00 | Buriton, Five Bells | Chris Gunns |
| - | - | 21:30 | Sheet, Queens Head | - |
| - | - | 22:20 | Hawkley, Hawkley Inn | - |
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Prize Old Mummers | 22:30 | Hawkley, Hawkley Inn | Chris Gunns |
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Broadside Mummers | - | Buriton, Nr. Petersfield, Five Bells | 01730 263584 |
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Prize Old Mummers | 12:15 | East Meon, Ye Old George
[Nelson Triumphant!] |
George Tennant 02392 643376 |
| - | - | 12:45 | Warnford, George & Falcon
[Nelson Triumphant!] |
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| - | - | 13:15 | Droxford, White Horse
[Nelson Triumphant!] |
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| - | - | 13:45 | Swanmore, New Inn
[Nelson Triumphant!] |
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| - | - | 14:15 | Meonstoke, Buck's Head
[Nelson Triumphant!] |
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King John's Morris Men | 21:00 | Southampton, Duke of Wellington, Bugle Street
[Focs`le Folk Club] |
John Connell 01489 588187 |
| - | - | 21:45 | Southampton, Freemantle Hotel, 27 Paynes Rd. | - |
| Overton Mummers | 20:00 | Micheldever, The Dove | Tom 01256 770384 |
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Minstead Mummers | - | Minstead | - |
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King John's Morris Men | 21:00 | Timsbury, The Malthouse, Stockbridge Rd. | John Connell 01489 588187 |
| Prize Old Mummers | 12:15 | Horndean, Ship & Bell Hotel
[This year's Mummers paly has a nautical Theme being 200 years since Trafalgar!] |
Ken Smart 02392 267904 |
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| - | - | 12:45 | Hambledon, Bat & Ball | - |
| - | - | 13:15 | Soberton, White Lion | - |
| - | - | 14:00 | Soberton Heath, Bold Forestor | - |
| - | - | 14:30 | Hambledon, The Vine | - |
| - | - | 15:15 | Denmead, Fox & Hounds | - |
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King John's Morris Men | 20:15 | Hamble, The Victory, High St. | John Connell 01489 588187 |
| - | - | 21:00 | Hamble, King and Queen | - |
| - | - | 21:45 | Bursledon, Jolly Sailor, Landsend Rd.
[TBC] |
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| - | - | 22:30 | Bursledon, The Vine, High St. | - |
| Stourvale Mummers | 20:15 | Ringwood, Inn on the Furlong | - | |
| - | - | 20:45 | Hightown, nr Ringwood, Elm Tree | - |
| - | - | 22:00 | Sopley, The Woolpack | - |
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King John's Morris Men | 20:30 | Boorley Green, The Pear Tree | John Connell 01489 588187 |
| - | - | 20:30 | Boorley Green, The Pear Tree | - |
| - | - | 21:15 | Upham, The Woodman, Winchester Rd. | - |
| - | - | 22:15 | Upham, The Brushmakers, Shoe Lane | - |
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King John's Morris Men | 20:00 | Swanmore, New Inn, Chapel Rd. | John Connell 01489 588187 |
| - | - | 20:45 | Shedfield, Sam's Hotel, Upper Church Rd. | - |
| - | - | 21:15 | Shedfield, The Wheatsheaf
[TBC] |
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| - | - | 22:15 | Bishop's Waltham, Hampshire Bowman, Dundridge Lane | - |
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Crookham Mummers | 12:00 | Crookham Village, George and Lobster
[Mumming as it should be. Famous for it furious sword fights, ad libs, topical references and audience participation, the play has been performed every boxing day for 40 years and prior to that virtually every year since about 1880, when the play was probably lifted from another local village. Probably the second finest Mummers Play in the World.] |
Tom Dommett 01252 843008 |
| - | - | 12:45 | Crookham Village, Black Horse | - |
| - | - | 13:30 | Crookham Village, Crescent Green | - |
| - | - | 14:00 | Dogmersfield, Queens Head | - |
| King John's Morris Men | 12:00 | Bursledon, The Vine, High St.
[Noon onwards.] |
John Connell 01489 588187 |
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| Overton Mummers | 13:00 | Overton, Community Centre Car Park
[or St Mary's Hall if wet...] |
Tom 01344 401111 |
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| - | - | 14:00 | Overton, The Greyhound, Winchester Street | - |
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Prize Old Mummers | 22:00 | Liss Forest, Temple Inn | Chris Gunns |
| - | - | 22:30 | Hawkley, Hawkley Inn | - |
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King John's Morris Men | 21:00 | Southampton, Focsle Folk Club
[King John's Mummers now in their 33rd year.] |
John Miller 0771 3823033 |
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King John's Morris Men | 20:15 | Swanwick, Elm Tree
[King John's Mummers now in their 33rd year.] |
John Miller 0771 3823033 |
| - | - | 21:00 | Bursledon, Lone Barn, Hungerford Bottom | - |
| - | - | 21:45 | Bursledon, Jolly Sailor | - |
| - | - | 22:30 | Bursledon, Old Vine | - |
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King John's Morris Men | 21:15 | Lower Upham, Woodman | John Miller 0771 3823033 |
| - | - | 22:15 | Shedfield, The Wheatsheaf | - |
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King John's Morris Men | 20:00 | Swanmore, New Inn
[King John's Mummers now in their 33rd year.] |
John Miller 0771 3823033 |
| - | - | 20:45 | Shedfield, Sam's Hotel | - |
| - | - | 21:15 | Upham, Brushmaker's Arms | - |
| - | - | 22:15 | Dundridge, Hampshire Bowman | - |
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Crookham Mummers | 12:00 | Crookham Village, George and Lobster
[Proper Mumming from one of the longest running sides in the Country. Renowned for the full blooded fights, audience participation and heckles. If you only see one Mummers Play this Christmas, make it this one.] |
Tom Dommett 01252 843008 |
| - | - | 12:45 | Crookham Village, Black Horse | - |
| - | - | 13:30 | Crookham Village, Crescent Green | - |
| - | - | 14:00 | Dogmersfield, Queens Head | - |
| Odiham Mummers | 12:00 | Odiham, In the Bury outside The Bell | Roger Twitchin | |
| - | - | 12:30 | Odiham, The George | - |
| - | - | 13:15 | Odiham, Water Witch | - |
| - | - | 14:00 | Odiham, The Bell | - |
| Yateley Mummers | 12:00 | Yateley | Neil Thomas 01252 487563 |
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