England
Berkshire
Datchet Border Morris [Website]
Category:
Dancers who perform Plays
Home Town:
Datchet, Grid Ref.: SU9877, Lat.& Long.: 51.4874, -0.5812
Description:
Male Border Morris side with a mixed band. We perform border and occasional long sword. Our mummers play is performed over the Christmas period.
Established:
1962
Performances:
Forthcoming: None registered
Past events: 2001 (2), 2002 (2), 2003 (1), 2004 (1), 2005 (1)
Media Links:
[None registered]
Contact:
Bagman (bagman@datchetmorris.org.uk)
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Ellington Morris [Website]
Category:
Dancers who perform Plays
Home Town:
Pinkneys Green, Grid Ref.: SU8682, Lat.& Long.: 51.5343, -0.7528
Description:
[None provided]
Performances:
Forthcoming: None registered
Past events: 2001 (1)
Media Links:
[None registered]
Notes:
Morris Federation
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Hummers' Mummers (Hurst Mummers) [Website]
Category:
Folk Play-acting Sub-Group
Home Town:
Hurst, Grid Ref.: SU7973, Lat.& Long.: 51.4544, -0.8557
Description:
[None provided]
Performances:
Forthcoming: None registered
Past events: 2003 (1), 2004 (3)
Media Links:
[None registered]
Contact:
Ian (contact@hump.org.uk), Phone: 0118 926 8187
Part of:
Hurst Morris People (HuMP)
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Bristol
Ashley's Rise Morris
Category:
Dancers who perform Plays
Home Town:
Bristol, Grid Ref.: ST5872, Lat.& Long.: 51.4495, -2.5973
Description:
[None provided]
Performances:
Forthcoming: None registered
Past events: 2002 (1), 2004 (2), 2005 (1), 2009 (2), 2010 (1)
Media Links:
1. Mumming at the Colston Hall, Bristol, England, 20th December 2004 - Validated link
Folk Play Research - Photo(s)
[1 image], John Clifford, 20-Dec-2004
Contact:
Kim Woodward (ashleyrisemorris@aol.com), Phone: 0117 940-1566
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Rag Morris (Bristol Rag Morris) [Website]
Category:
Dancers who perform Plays
Home Town:
Bristol, Grid Ref.: ST5872, Lat.& Long.: 51.4495, -2.5973
Description:
Primarily a morris dancing side, but occasionally performing traditional-style plays.
Established:
1981
Performances:
Forthcoming: None registered
Past events: 2009 (2), 2010 (3), 2011 (5), 2014 (2)
Media Links:
1. Flickr Photostream with images of Rag Morris Mummers' Play - Validated link
flickr - Photo(s)
[16 Photos / 2 Videos], Gavin Skinner, 12-Sep-2009
2. Celebrating the life of Isambard Kingdom Brunel - Validated link
This is Bristol - News article
, 25-Aug-2009
Contact:
Gavin Skinner (fds_gavin@yahoo.com)
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Buckinghamshire
Crendon Morris (Crendon Mummers) [Website]
Category:
Dancers who perform Plays
Home Town:
Long Crendon, Grid Ref.: SP6908, Lat.& Long.: 51.7704, -0.9927
Description:
Traditional Cotswold Morris plus Christmas Mummers
Established:
1967
Performances:
Forthcoming: None registered
Past events: 2002 (1), 2003 (2), 2004 (1), 2009 (2), 2010 (3), 2011 (1)
Media Links:
[None registered]
Contact:
Pete Summerskill (pete.summerskill@crendonmorris.org), Phone: 01844 291172
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Haddenham Mummers [Website]
Category:
Folk Play-only Group
Home Town:
Haddenham, Grid Ref.: SP7408, Lat.& Long.: 51.7698, -0.9202
Description:
We perform the traditional village mummers play as published in 1942 by Walter Rose in his book 'Good Neighbours'. The play was revived in 1976 and every year since then it has been performed in pubs in and around Haddenham on the days just before Christmas. After each performance money is collected for local good causes.
Established:
1976
Performances:
Forthcoming: None registered
Past events: 2002 (2), 2003 (2), 2004 (2), 2005 (2), 2009 (2), 2010 (3), 2012 (2), 2013 (7), 2018 (6)
Media Links:
1. The Haddenham Mummers Play - Validated link
YouTube - Video
[8min 39sec], Roger Rowe, 19-Dec-2008
Contact:
Andy Hardy (hardy48@btinternet.com), Phone: 01844 291173
Address: 48 Churchway, Haddenham, Bucks, HP17 8HA
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Marston Mummers [Website]
Category:
Folk Play-only Group
Home Town:
North Marston, Grid Ref.: SP7722
Description:
A modern revival of a traditional English folk-play featuring The St. George, Bold Slasher, Father Christmas, Dr John Schorne, Happy Jack and Beelzebub. Draws upon an old Quainton script (in the Vaughan-Williams Memorial Library) and some other historical scripts.
Established:
2018
Performances:
Forthcoming: None registered
Past events: None registered
Media Links:
[None registered]
Contact:
Trevor Jenkins (trevorm.jenkins@btinternet.com)
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Owlswick Morris [Website]
Category:
Dancers who perform Plays
Home Town:
Twyford, Grid Ref.: SP6626, Lat.& Long.: 51.9326, -1.0327
Description:
Perform morris, clog, rapper, longsword, Appalachian, and Mummers.
Established:
1982
Performances:
Forthcoming: None registered
Past events: 2002 (1), 2003 (3), 2004 (3), 2005 (2), 2006 (1), 2008 (2), 2009 (1), 2010 (2), 2011 (3), 2012 (1), 2013 (1)
Media Links:
1. Owlswick Morris at The Plough, Finstock, Oxfordshire, England, 1st Jan.2005 - Validated link
Folk Play Research - Photo(s)
[2 images], Jan Stuart, 01-Jan-2005
Contacts:
Juls Thomas, Special Events (owlswick.morris@gmail.com)
Hilary Conboy, Secretary (h.conboy@btinternet.com)
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Stony Stratford Mummers [Website]
Category:
Folk Play-only Group
Home Town:
Stony Stratford, Grid Ref.: SP7940, Lat.& Long.: 52.0568, -0.8404
Description:
We perform throughout the Christmas season and also in the summer. We work from a range of traditional scripts from the Midland Counties and Cotswolds, plus our own 'Stony' play. We care about tradition but the most important thing is to entertain. Everything comes with plenty of music and lots of songs, accompanied by our Mummers' band.
Established:
1973
Performances:
Forthcoming: None registered
Past events: 2001 (2), 2002 (2), 2004 (2), 2005 (3), 2006 (5), 2008 (1), 2009 (4), 2010 (3), 2011 (4), 2012 (5), 2013 (5), 2014 (3), 2015 (5), 2016 (2), 2017 (3), 2018 (4), 2019 (6)
Media Links:
[None registered]
Contact:
Julian Drury (jadrury@btinternet.com), Phone: 01908 260546 (Home)
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Cambridgeshire
March Mummers
Category:
Folk Play-only Group
Home Town:
March, Grid Ref.: TL4196, Lat.& Long.: 52.5476, 0.0870
Description:
We were a folk play group based in March, Cambridgeshire and we performed a folk play in the town to raise money for local charities. Our play was one written by Mike Herring and performed by members of the Peterborough Folk Club in the winters of 1968 and 1969. The script included some words from an old play that was featured in a local newspaper in 1902.
Established:
2011, Ceased: 2022
Performances:
Forthcoming: None registered
Past events: 2012 (1), 2013 (2), 2014 (1), 2015 (3), 2016 (2), 2017 (2), 2018 (2), 2019 (2), 2021 (1), 2022 (2)
Media Links:
[None registered]
Contacts:
Stuart Broad (stuart@tellinghistory.co.uk)
Maureen James (tellinghistory@btinternet.com)
Notes:
We performed the play in local pubs and other venues in the town from December 2011 until December 2022, and at the March town St George's Fayre each April. We have given over 70 performances, and raised over £2000 for local charities.
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Midwinter Mummers
Category:
Folk Play-only Group
Home Town:
Peterborough, Grid Ref.: TL1999, Lat.& Long.: 52.5798, -0.2362
Description:
Our play is a quack doctor play, given to us 1989 by a man from the Whittlesea area, he was 92 at the time, and remembered doing it as a boy in the scouts and in the church youth group in the '20s and '30s. He said it was written down by his grandfather in the Black Bull pub in Whittlesea sometime in the 1880's.
Established:
1990
Performances:
Forthcoming: None registered
Past events: 2003 (1), 2010 (1)
Media Links:
[None registered]
Notes:
We put the play on at various pubs, collecting money for charity, which we give to local charities only. During our 20 years of existence, we have given away approximately £10,000.
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Northstow Mummers (Traditional Music of Cambridgeshire Collective) [Website]
Category:
Other Performing Group
Home Town:
Cambridge, Grid Ref.: TL4658, Lat.& Long.: 52.2053, 0.1425
Description:
Northstow Mummers perform mummers' plays and play Cambridegshire music, as well as keeping up the day at Wassails, Plough Sunday/Monday. May Day, Midsummer, Lammas, Hallowe'en, Tander and Christmas/Yuletide.
Established:
1996
Performances:
Forthcoming: None registered
Past events: 2009 (4), 2010 (5), 2011 (4)
Media Links:
1. Northstow Mummers at Conington, Boxing Day 2010 - Unverified link
YouTube - Video
[10min 0sec], anahatamelodeon, 26-Dec-2010
2. Northstow Mummers Cambridge May Day 2010 - Unverified link
YouTube - Video
, Aniiie D, 01-May-2010
3. The Derby Ram by Nigel Campbell Pennick - Unverified link
YouTube - Video
[5min 30sec], Nigel Campbell Pennick, 07-Apr-2010
Contact:
Nigel Pennick, Lord of Misrule (keepinguptheday@live.co.uk), Phone: 01954 789751
Address: PO Box 530, Cambridge, CB23 8FS
Notes:
Affiliate of English Folk Dance and Song Society
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Cheshire
Alderley Mummers Play
Category:
Folk Play-acting Sub-Group
Home Town:
Macclesfield, Grid Ref.: SJ9173, Lat.& Long.: 53.2582, -2.1274
Description:
[None provided]
Performances:
Forthcoming: None registered
Past events: 2002 (3), 2003 (3), 2004 (3), 2005 (2), 2008 (2), 2009 (2), 2010 (2), 2015 (1), 2016 (2), 2017 (1), 2018 (2), 2019 (1)
Media Links:
1. The Alderley Mummers Play (performed by Adlington Morris Men), 2nd January 2004 in Macclesfield, Cheshire, England - Validated link
Folk Play Research - Photo(s)
[5 images], Brian Macfadyen & Dave Cook, 02-Jan-2004
2. 27th December 2002, at The Cock & Pheasant, Bollington, Cheshire, England - Validated link
Folk Play Research - Photo(s)
[1 image], Duncan Broomhead, 27-Dec-2002
3. Alderley Mummers 2002 - Validated link
Folk Play Research - Photo(s)
[1 image], Duncan Broomhead, 2002
Contact:
Duncan Broomhead (adlingtonmorrismen@btopenworld.com), Phone: 01625 827988
Part of:
Adlington Morris Men
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Antrobus Soulcakers
Category:
Folk Play-only Group
Home Town:
Antrobus, Grid Ref.: SJ6479, Lat.& Long.: 53.3110, -2.5329
Description:
A traditional Cheshire Souling play performed on All Soul's Eve and the following 2 weekends. The Antrobus Gang are well established with continuity a distinguishing feature.
Performances:
Forthcoming: None registered
Past events: 2002 (7), 2003 (6), 2004 (5), 2005 (6), 2006 (6), 2007 (6), 2008 (6), 2009 (6), 2010 (6), 2011 (6), 2012 (6), 2013 (6), 2014 (6), 2015 (6), 2016 (6), 2017 (6), 2018 (6), 2019 (6), 2021 (6), 2023 (6)
Media Links:
1. Antrobus Soulcakers 2008 - Validated link
Master Mummers - Photo(s)
[4 images], Celia Kemp, 01-Nov-2008
2. Outside the Holly Bush, Little Leigh, Cheshire, England, 1st November 2004 - Validated link
Folk Play Research - Photo(s)
[1 image], Duncan Broomhead, 01-Nov-2004
3. Outside the Holly Bush, Little Leigh, 31st October 2002 - Validated link
Folk Play Research - Photo(s)
[3 images], Duncan Broomhead, 31-Oct-2002
4. Antrobus Soul-Cakers 2000 - Validated link
Folk Play Research - Photo(s)
[1 image], Duncan Broomhead, 2000
Contact:
Ian McCormack (wimccormack@btinternet.com)
Notes:
The Antrobus Gang are thought to have had performances continuously dating back hundreds of years.
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Comberbach Swilltub Mummers (Comberbach Soulcakers) [Website]
Category:
Folk Play-only Group
Home Town:
Comberbach, Grid Ref.: SJ6477, Lat.& Long.: 53.2930, -2.5326
Description:
We perform the village's Soulcaking Play and occasionally other mumming plays
Established:
1985
Performances:
Forthcoming: None registered
Past events: 2002 (6), 2003 (5), 2004 (6), 2005 (5), 2006 (6), 2007 (6), 2008 (5), 2009 (5), 2010 (5), 2011 (5), 2012 (5), 2013 (5), 2014 (4), 2015 (3), 2016 (3), 2017 (3), 2018 (3), 2019 (2)
Media Links:
1. Comberbach Souling Play - Validated link
YouTube - Video
[9min 56sec], Christopher Hobson, 2008
2. Comberbach Soulcakers at the Drum and Monkey, Comberbach, Cheshire, England, 1st November 2004 - Validated link
Folk Play Research - Photo(s)
[1 image], Duncan Broomhead, 01-Nov-2004
3. Performing at the Cock O'Budworth, Great Budworth, 31st October 2002 - Validated link
Folk Play Research - Photo(s)
[3 images], Duncan Broomhead, 31-Oct-2002
4. Comberbach Soulcakers 2001 - Validated link
Folk Play Research - Photo(s)
[1 image], Duncan Broomhead, 2001
Contact:
Phil Pugh (phil@goosegate.plus.com), Phone: 07799487927
Notes:
Reformed in 1985. Reformed side included one member of the gang that performed in the 1950's prior to stopping.
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God's Croft Beelzebubbers
Category:
Folk Play-acting Sub-Group
Home Town:
Willaston-in-Wirral, Grid Ref.: SJ3277, Lat.& Long.: 53.2899, -3.0127
Description:
[None provided]
Performances:
Forthcoming: None registered
Past events: 2005 (1), 2009 (1), 2010 (1)
Media Links:
[None registered]
Contact:
Anthony Foard (info@merseymorrismen.com), Phone: 0151 334 4566
Part of:
Mersey Morris Men
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Halton Soulers [Website]
Category:
Folk Play-acting Sub-Group
Home Town:
Halton, Grid Ref.: SJ5381, Lat.& Long.: 53.3344, -2.6983
Description:
Revival of the traditional Halton Souling Play
Established:
2000
Performances:
Forthcoming: None registered
Past events: 2002 (4), 2003 (4), 2004 (6), 2005 (3), 2006 (3), 2007 (2), 2008 (3), 2009 (3), 2010 (3), 2011 (3), 2012 (4), 2013 (3), 2014 (3), 2015 (4), 2016 (4), 2017 (3), 2018 (3), 2019 (3), 2020 (2), 2021 (1), 2023 (2)
Media Links:
1. Halton Soulers at Stockton Heath, Cheshire, England, 31st October 2004 - Validated link
Folk Play Research - Photo(s)
[1 image], Duncan Broomhead, 30-Oct-2004
2. 4th November 2002, at the Red Lion, Moore, Cheshire, England - Validated link
Folk Play Research - Photo(s)
[1 image], Duncan Broomhead, 04-Nov-2002
3. Photo by Duncan Broomhead. - Validated link
Folk Play Research - Photo(s)
[3 images], Duncan Broomhead, 2002
4. Halton Soulers 2000 - Validated link
Folk Play Research - Photo(s)
[1 image], Duncan Broomhead, 2000
Contacts:
Alan Goodkin (lynandalan@gmx.com), Phone: 01925 740231
Dave Love (webmaster@earlofstamford.org.uk)
Part of:
Earl of Stamford Morris
Notes:
Revival based on script published in 1886
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Jones' Ale Soul Cakers
Category:
Folk Play-only Group
Home Town:
Chester, Grid Ref.: SJ4066, Lat.& Long.: 53.1920, -2.8907
Description:
[None provided]
Performances:
Forthcoming: None registered
Past events: 2002 (2), 2003 (1), 2004 (3), 2005 (6), 2006 (3), 2007 (2), 2008 (2), 2009 (3), 2010 (3), 2011 (2), 2012 (3), 2013 (3), 2014 (1), 2015 (1), 2016 (1), 2017 (1), 2018 (1), 2019 (1)
Media Links:
1. Jones's Ale Soul Cakers, at the Mount Inn, Broughton, Chester, Cheshire, England, 31st October 2004 - Validated link
Folk Play Research - Photo(s)
[1 image], Duncan Broomhead, 31-Oct-2004
2. Jones's Ale Soul Cakers, Chester, outside the Chester Visitor Centre, 31st October 2002, performing their version of the Alderley Mummers Play. - Validated link
Folk Play Research - Photo(s)
[3 images], Duncan Broomhead, 30-Oct-2002
3. Jones's Ale Soul Cakers, Chester 2000 - Validated link
Folk Play Research - Photo(s)
[1 image], Duncan Broomhead, 2000
Contact:
Tom Hughes, Phone: 01942 270392
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Mobberley Souling Play
Category:
Folk Play-acting Sub-Group
Home Town:
Mobberley, Grid Ref.: SJ7879, Lat.& Long.: 53.3117, -2.3227
Description:
[None provided]
Performances:
Forthcoming: None registered
Past events: 2002 (1)
Media Links:
1. 2nd November 2002 at the Bulls Head, Mobberley, Cheshire, England - Validated link
Folk Play Research - Photo(s)
[2 images], Duncan Broomhead, 02-Nov-2002
2. Mobberley Soulers 2000 - Validated link
Folk Play Research - Photo(s)
[1 image], Duncan Broomhead, 2000
Contact:
Jim, Phone: 01925 601735
Part of:
Ringheye Morris of Mobberley
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