P.J.Stevenson Collection (1975, M.Hunt)
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6 Westminster Road
Eccles
Manchester, 30
12th November 1975
Dear Mr Stephenson,
I have just read your letter in the Eccles
Journal asking for information about traditional
plays.
You might be interested to hear about my grand-
father's involvement. (I never knew him. The
information comes from my mother.) He was born
around 1885-1890 and died during the last war.
In his early life he did agricultural work and
later he worked in the coal mines in east
Derbyshire. At some time (about ? ? '20s,
I think) he used to take part in a play
which was performed in the big houses belonging
to the colliery owners. His part was
Beelzebub and some the words he said
were: "In come I Beelzebub, In my hand I
carry a club. on my back a frying pan, If
you don't think I'm a funny old man, I do. [very faintly photocopied]
So far as I [rest of line illegible]
same area around Alfreton).
My mother can remember some dialoague involving
a doctor. I am sure she would be pleased
to pass on what she knows if you would care to
write and ask her about it. The address is
Mrs. G.E.Hunt
3 Elmsfield Avenue
Heanor
Derbyshire
Also he had a stepson who is older and might
remember more.
Mr. A. Tomlinson
"Rosemere"
Lower Green
Brackenfield
Chesterfield
Derbyshire
Apart from what I have seen plays
performed by the Coventry Mummers (revived, not an
unbroken tradition) who know a lot about them, but I
don't have an address for them. Try folk
festival organisers. Also I know MIke Harding
to have investigated local plays. His address
is: Batty Wife Hole, Railway Cottages.
HONEST!
Selside, Horton in Ribblesdate, Yorkshire.
Another person who would know quite a lot
is Paul Grainey whose address I do not know
but Mike might. Otherwise ask Barry Seddon
of the Manchester Evening News for Paul's
address.
I hope this is of help to you
Yours sincerely
Marion Hunt |
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