Nottinghamshire Weekly Express (1912a)
Source:
*[Anon.] (Auth.)
[Plough Monday at Wollaton and Lenton Sands, Notts.]
*Nottinghamshire Weekly Express,
20th Dec.1912
Source states; "Professor Granger was lecturing on 'Myth and Legend,' and he
referred to an old Nottingham festival 'Plough Monday." In 1822 the mummers at
Wollaton so frightened two horses that they ran away and killed two persons, as
a result of which the town authorities decided that these people should behave
more quietly, and should never come quite to the top of Derby road. It was also
recorded that mummers with black faces came up Lenton Sands, 'kissed nursemaids,
and made babies cry.' Usages like this, said the lecturer, carry us back to
some of the most wholesome parts of our national life. 'Let us keep to our
English legends, and let us only bring in legends of other races and other times
so far as it is necessary from the literary work of the child towards the end of
its course.'"
Index Terms:
| Locations: |
Lenton Sands, Notts. (SK5539); Wollaton, Notts. (SK5239)
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| Years: |
*Publ. 1912; Perf. 1822
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| Subjects: |
Plough Monday; Mummers; Byelaw; Disorderliness
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| People: |
*Prof. Granger (Lecturer)
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| Archives: |
TDRG Archive, Ref. TD00190;
W.E.Doubleday Index, Plough Monday
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* indicates data that has not yet been validated against the original source and/or has yet to be completely indexed.
Last Updated Jul 1988 by Peter Millington.
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