England
West Sussex
Chanctonbury Ring Morris Men [Website]
Category:
Dancers who perform Plays
Home Town:
Chanctonbury Ring, Grid Ref.: TQ1312, Lat.& Long.: 50.9003, -0.3858
Description:
Chanctonbury Ring Morris Men is an all-male side based in central Sussex. and Performers of the Steyning Tipteerer Play.
Established:
1953
Performances:
Forthcoming: None registered
Past events: 2002 (1), 2003 (2), 2004 (1), 2009 (1), 2013 (1), 2014 (1)
Media Links:
1 link to News article, 1 link to Photo(s)
Contact:
Clive (crmmbagman@gmail.com), Phone: 01273 494377
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Chichester Folk Song Club Tipteerers
Category:
Folk Play-acting Sub-Group
Home Town:
Chichester, Grid Ref.: SU8604, Lat.& Long.: 50.8330, -0.7715
Description:
Performing traditional, modified and new mumming plays exclusively for Folk Club Christmas party (with occasional charity performances for private functions).
Established:
1992
Performances:
Forthcoming: None registered
Media Links:
[None registered]
Contact:
Kerry Manning, Club Publicity & Tipteerer (chifolksongclub@btinternet.com)
Part of:
Chichester Folk Song Club
Notes:
Latest incarnation started in 1992, but previous existences are remembered in the folk club's 50 year history.
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Chichester Tipteers
Category:
Folk Play-acting Sub-Group
Home Town:
Chichester, Grid Ref.: SU8604, Lat.& Long.: 50.8330, -0.7715
Description:
[None provided]
Performances:
Forthcoming: None registered
Past events: 2003 (1), 2004 (1)
Media Links:
[None registered]
Part of:
Chichester Folk Song Club
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Hammingden Tipteerers [Website]
Category:
Folk Play-only Group
Home Town:
Highbrook, Grid Ref.: TQ3630, Lat.& Long.: 51.0571, -0.0521
Description:
The Hammingden Tipteerers perform a (mostly) traditional Mummers play in pubs in the Ardingly / Lindfield / Turners Hill / Newick / Danehill areas at Christmas raising money for local charities.
Established:
1960
Performances:
Forthcoming: None registered
Past events: 2002 (2), 2003 (2), 2004 (1), 2005 (1), 2006 (1), 2008 (1), 2009 (1), 2010 (1)
Media Links:
[None registered]
Contact:
John Downe (john@burstowcottage.co.uk), Phone: 01444-892065
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Sompting Tipteerers
Category:
Dancers who perform Plays
Home Town:
Worthing, Grid Ref.: TQ1502, Lat.& Long.: 50.8100, -0.3605
Description:
Performers of a Susssex Mummer's Play - St George and the Turkish Knight
Established:
1978
Performances:
Forthcoming: None registered
Past events: 2001 (2), 2002 (1), 2009 (3), 2010 (4), 2011 (2), 2013 (1), 2014 (1)
Media Links:
[None registered]
Contact:
Glynn Jones, Captain of Mummers (glynnhughjones@gmail.com), Phone: 01903 744258 (Home) or 0796 7567975 (Mob.)
Address: Warren Cottage, Georges Lane, Storrington, West Sussex
Part of:
Sompting Village Morris
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Union Jack Mummers and Morris [Website]
Category:
Dancers who perform Plays
Home Town:
Horsham, Grid Ref.: TQ1730, Lat.& Long.: 51.0613, -0.3231
Description:
Very entertaining Mummers play and Morris dancing Group
Established:
2007
Performances:
Forthcoming: None registered
Media Links:
[None registered]
Contact:
Steve Bourne (info@unionjackmummers.50webs.com), Phone: 01403 732951 (Home)
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West Yorkshire
Bradshaw Mummers [Website]
Category:
Folk Play-only Group
Home Town:
Halifax, Grid Ref.: SE0925, Lat.& Long.: 53.7256, -1.8560
Description:
The Bradshaw Mummers are a street theatre group, performing traditional and contemporary plays based on mumming traditions.
Established:
1972
Performances:
Forthcoming: None registered
Past events: 2009 (6), 2013 (1), 2014 (1)
Media Links:
[None registered]
Contacts:
Phil Lyon, Bagman & Bookings (phil@bradshawmummers.com), Phone: 01274 675985 (Home)
Paul Mansley, Squire & held responsible (p.mansley@tiscali.co.uk), Phone: 01422 363630 (Home) or 07738 930449 (Mob.)
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Brighouse Childrens' Theatre (reunited)
Category:
Folk Play-only Group
Home Town:
Brighouse, Grid Ref.: SE1423, Lat.& Long.: 53.7075, -1.7803
Description:
[None provided]
Performances:
Forthcoming: None registered
Past events: 2004 (1)
Media Links:
1 link to Photo(s)
Contact:
John Warren (hoyhoy@ownmail.net), Phone: 07863 119864
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Heptonstall Players (Heptonstall Pace Eggers)
Category:
Folk Play-only Group
Home Town:
Heptonstall, Grid Ref.: SD9827, Lat.& Long.: 53.7437, -2.0227
Description:
[None provided]
Performances:
Forthcoming: None registered
Past events: 2001 (1), 2002 (1), 2003 (1), 2009 (1), 2010 (1), 2011 (1), 2012 (1), 2013 (1), 2014 (1), 2015 (1), 2016 (1), 2017 (1), 2018 (1), 2019 (1), 2022 (1), 2023 (1)
Media Links:
1 link to News article, 4 links to Photo(s)
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Holbeck Moor Mummers
Category:
Folk Play-acting Sub-Group
Home Town:
Holbeck, Grid Ref.: SE2932, Lat.& Long.: 53.7878, -1.5522
Description:
[None provided]
Performances:
Forthcoming: None registered
Past events: 2002 (2), 2003 (5), 2004 (3), 2005 (3), 2009 (3), 2013 (4)
Media Links:
2 links to Photo(s)
Contact:
Brian Senior (brian.senior1@ntlworld.com), Phone: 0113 2931371
Part of:
Grove Inn, Holbeck , Leeds
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Long Company [Website]
Category:
Folk Play-acting Sub-Group
Home Town:
Ripponden, Grid Ref.: SE0319, Lat.& Long.: 53.6717, -1.9470
Description:
[None provided]
Established:
1992
Performances:
Forthcoming: None registered
Past events: 2002 (4), 2003 (4), 2004 (4), 2005 (4), 2006 (4), 2007 (4), 2009 (4), 2010 (4), 2011 (4), 2013 (4), 2014 (4), 2015 (4), 2016 (4), 2017 (4), 2020 (9), 2024 (4)
Media Links:
3 links to Photo(s), 4 links to Video
Contact:
Pete Coe, Leader (pete@petecoe.co.uk), Phone: 01422 822569
Address: 103 Oldham Road, Ripponden, West Yorks., HX6 4EB
Part of:
Ryburn 3 Step
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Midgley Pace Eggers (Calder High Pace Eggers)
Category:
Folk Play-only Group
Home Town:
Midgley, Grid Ref.: SE0226, Lat.& Long.: 53.7347, -1.9621
Description:
The Midgley Pace-Eggers are one of the oldest traditional folk play groups in England. This youth team is based at Calder High School, and they perform at street locations throughout the Calder Valley, West Yorkshire on Good Fridays.
Performances:
Forthcoming: None registered
Past events: 2001 (1), 2002 (1), 2003 (1), 2004 (1), 2005 (1), 2009 (1), 2010 (1), 2011 (1), 2012 (1), 2013 (1), 2014 (1), 2015 (1), 2016 (1), 2017 (1), 2018 (1), 2019 (1), 2022 (1), 2023 (1)
Media Links:
2 links to News article, 6 links to Photo(s), 1 link to Video
Part of:
Calder High School
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Wiltshire
Avon Field Mummers [Website]
Category:
Folk Play-only Group
Home Town:
Bradford on Avon, Grid Ref.: ST8260, Lat.& Long.: 51.3428, -2.2513
Description:
Avon Field Mummers perform a contemporary, local mumming play in Bradford on Avon on Boxing Day
Established:
2012
Performances:
Forthcoming: None registered
Past events: 2014 (1), 2015 (1), 2018 (1)
Media Links:
[None registered]
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Potterne Mummers (Potterne Christmas Boys) [Website]
Category:
Folk Play-only Group
Home Town:
Potterne, Grid Ref.: ST9958, Lat.& Long.: 51.3251, -2.0072
Description:
Potterne Mummers were originally revived by Bernard Baker in 1953. It was further revived in 1972 by Mick Hiscock, still a current member. It meets in the weeks up to Christmas and finishes at the George and Dragon, Potterne on Christmas Eve.
Established:
1972
Performances:
Forthcoming: None registered
Past events: 2002 (3), 2003 (4), 2004 (5), 2005 (6), 2006 (4), 2008 (2), 2009 (5), 2010 (9), 2011 (6), 2012 (6), 2013 (6), 2014 (6), 2015 (6), 2016 (5), 2017 (5), 2018 (5), 2019 (4), 2023 (3)
Media Links:
2 links to Photo(s)
Contact:
Bob Berry, The Disorganiser (info@potternemummers.co.uk), Phone: 07714 550990 (Mob.) or 01380 726597 (Eve.)
Address: c/o Wiltshire Folk Arts, 19 Whistley Rd, Potterne, Devizes, SN10 5QY
Part of:
Wiltshire Folk Arts
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Purton Mummers
Category:
Folk Play-only Group
Home Town:
Purton, Grid Ref.: SU0987, Lat.& Long.: 51.5858, -1.8629
Description:
[None provided]
Performances:
Forthcoming: None registered
Past events: 2001 (1)
Media Links:
[None registered]
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Ragged Heroes Mummers
Category:
Folk Play-only Group
Home Town:
Lacock, Grid Ref.: ST9168, Lat.& Long.: 51.4150, -2.1222
Description:
We perform annually on Christmas Eve around the pubs in the Wiltshire village of Lacock and have done so every year since our formation, and intermittently in our former incarnation. We have also occasionally ventured further afield.
Established:
1983
Performances:
Forthcoming: None registered
Past events: 2001 (2), 2002 (2), 2003 (5), 2004 (2)
Media Links:
2 links to Web page
Contact:
Mike Slater (cruel_driver@hotmail.com), Phone: 0117 9492860
Notes:
Reformed from an earlier group called Wessex Wassailers founded in 1976 by Graham Nichols.
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Sarum Morris
Category:
Dancers who perform Plays
Home Town:
Salisbury, Grid Ref.: SU1429, Lat.& Long.: 51.0641, -1.7931
Description:
We have taken a traditional Quidhampton Mummers Play from our area and updated it. We have also written our own Jack in the Green and John Barleycorn plays in similar format
Established:
1982
Performances:
Forthcoming: None registered
Past events: 2004 (2), 2018 (3)
Media Links:
[None registered]
Contact:
Richard Death (rndeath@hotmail.com)
Notes:
We perform morris dancing approx 25-35 times per year, mummers plays only 3-5 times per year, mostly at private events, but to the public at Nativity Pageant / open air carol service in Wilton
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Worlds End Mummers of Pewsey (Pewsey Mummers) [Website]
Category:
Folk Play-only Group
Home Town:
Pewsey, Grid Ref.: SU1660, Lat.& Long.: 51.3433, -1.7645
Description:
Group formed at the Crown Inn, Pewsey.
Established:
2018
Performances:
Forthcoming: None registered
Past events: 2018 (3)
Media Links:
[None registered]
Contact:
Peter, Bromwich (pbromwich@hotmail.com), Phone: 0776 9704428
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Worcestershire
Alvechurch Mummers [Website]
Category:
Folk Play-acting Sub-Group
Home Town:
Alvechurch, Grid Ref.: SP0272, Lat.& Long.: 52.3502, -1.9633
Description:
[None provided]
Established:
1990
Performances:
Forthcoming: None registered
Past events: 2002 (1), 2003 (1), 2004 (1), 2005 (1), 2009 (1), 2010 (1), 2011 (1), 2013 (1), 2014 (1)
Media Links:
1 link to Photo(s)
Contact:
Martyn Read (martynread@virginmedia.com), Phone: 01527 66277
Part of:
Alvechurch Morris
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Ashton Mummers [Website]
Category:
Folk Play-acting Sub-Group
Home Town:
Ashton under Hill, Grid Ref.: SO9938, Lat.& Long.: 52.0445, -2.0073
Description:
[None provided]
Performances:
Forthcoming: None registered
Past events: 2003 (1)
Media Links:
[None registered]
Part of:
Ashton Players
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