Kirkby-in-Ashfield (SK4956), Nottinghamshire
P.T.Millington Collection (1971j)
Anon. (Inf.)
MISCELLANEOUS NOTES ON NOTTINGHAMSHIRE AND DERBYSHIRE FOLK DRAMA RECORDED BY PETER T. MILLINGTON: KIKBY-IN-ASHFIELD Notts SK 4956
P.T.Millington Collection,
Col. 4th Mar.1971
Brief note as follows:-
"Recorded on the 4th March 1971 at the 'Crown' Mansfield, from an unnamed member
of the Mansfield Young Teacher Group from Kirkby-in-Ashfield.
Up till about 1964, three of four men or boys in at least one street would go
from house to house on New Years Morn after Midnight. They had blackened faces,
and they recited a rhyme (no acting) for which they were rewarded with a florin
each or some other silver coin."
P.T.Millington Collection (1971b)
Anon. (Inf.)
MISCELLANEOUS NOTES ON NOTTINGHAMSHIRE AND DERBYSHIRE FOLK DRAMA RECORDED BY PETER T. MILLINGTON: KIRKBY-IN-ASHFIELD Notts SK 4956
P.T.Millington Collection,
Col. 1971
Brief note as follows:-
"Recorded in 1971 from an unnamed informant in Mansfield, Notts.
The informant, who at the time was a student teacher on teaching practice in
Mansfield, made a casual visit to the 'Cart and Horses' at Kirkby, on or about
the 4th November (1968), where she witnessed the performance of a play by
children."
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