Nottinghamshire Guardian (1909b)
Source:
[Anon.] (Auth.)
PLOUGH MONDAY: PLOUGH MONDAY IN EAST NOTTINGHAM
*Nottinghamshire Guardian,
23rd Jan.1909
This article gives details of Plough Monday, Plough Bullockin by
schoolboys in the Carlton Road district of Nottingham. This was not a
play custom. Details are also given of Twelfth Cakes sold in Sneinton,
Nottingham on Twelfth Night up to about 1870 or 1880. The article mentions the
publication the previous week of an account of Plough Monday "in the
neighbourhood of Bingham", Notts. Evidently this was Mrs. Chaworth-Musters
account in Nottinghamshire Guardian (1909a). Note this stage in the change of
name for the location of the account from Wiverton Hall into Bingham.
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Transcript
PLOUGH MONDAY.
Last week I printed in this column in an abbrevi-
ated form the very interesting testimony of a
Notts. lady as to the vigorous survival of dramatic
Plough Monday observances, not many years ago,
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Index Terms:
| Locations: |
Carlton Road, Nottingham, Notts. (SK5840); Sneinton, Nottingham, Notts. (SK5740); Bingham, Notts. (SK7039)
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| Years: |
Publ. 1909; Observed about 1870 to 1880
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| Subjects: |
Begging; Cakes; Play; Plough Monday; Plough Bullockin; Twelfth Cakes; Twelfth Night; Nottinghamshire Guardian (1909a)
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| Archives: |
TDRG Archive, Ref. TD00152;
W.E.Doubleday Scrapbook, Vol.1, p.16;;
Local Notes & Queries Scrapbook, 1908-1918
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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 Oct 1987 by Peter Millington.
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