T.Ratcliffe (1920b)
Source:
Thos. Ratcliffe (Auth.)
LOCAL NOTES AND QUERIES: Derbyshire Christmas Mummers
*Nottinghamshire Guardian,
24th Dec.1920
"Christmas is here, and with it may come the 'guisers and mummers' if they
still survive. In Derbyshire they were looked forward to at Christmas when I
was a lad, and I have pleasant memories of the 'Owd Hoss' and 'Darby Tup' with
its butting horns. St. George and Slasher used to delight me in those days, and
the doctor whose seasonable advice was 'Take a sup down thy throttle.' An old
Derbyshire Christmas was nothing without the guisers and mummers.
Index Terms:
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Derbys.
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| Years: |
Publ. 1920
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| Subjects: |
Play; Guisers; Mummers; Christmas; "Owd Hoss"; "Darby Tup"; St. George; Slasher; Doctor
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| People: |
Thomas Ratcliffe (Auth.)
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| Archives: |
TDRG Archive, Ref. TD00212;
Local Notes & Queries Scrapbook, 1918-1922, p.110
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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 Mar 1990 by Idwal Jones.
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