P.T.Millington Collection (1972, B.Faulconbridge)
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35 Hall Lane,, Brinsley, Notts, NG16 3AN Tel: L.Mill 2779
20th January 1972
Peter T. Millington Esq., 82 Moorgreen, Newthorpe, Notts.
Dear Sir,
I was most interested in your recent article in the "Eastwood and Kimberley Advertiser" regarding Guysers and wondered if the litlle information T haVe on this subject could be of any use to you.
Up until 1964 I lived at Selston where the Guysers were verj popular at one time partiularly inn the early forties and through the war years. I remember very well "tagging" along with some of the bigger boys doing the rounds at Christmas and I also remember when I was about ten - and from about 1946 to 1950 friends of mine went Guyseing but they moved out of Selston with their activites as they found that at Somercotes and.Alfreton it was something quite new and they were allowed in the public houses at that time to present their act and this prooved very lucrative.
I enclose the words I remember of the Bull Guyses on the attached. sheet.
Yours faithfully
Barbara Faulconbridge (Mrs)
Enterer: l open the door I enter in I beg your nardcn to begin, Whether I stand or whether I fall I do my duty to please you all. If you don't believe these words I say - step in Bull Guyse and clear the way.
Bull G. My names Bull Guyse, body of brass arms of steel no man can make me feel.
St.George: Can't I make thee feel.
Bull G: No
St.George? Stand back, stand. back, you dirty dog I'll make your buttons fly I'll fill your body full of brass and thou shalt surely die.
Send for the doctor.
In comes doctor Brown the finest doctor in the town.
Doctor: Here Jack take some of this nick-nack and let it go down thy tick tack and arise and fight St. George again.
Somwhere along the line was Bells-a-bub who was alwyays in tatters and carried a frying pan, and I think he or perhaps everyone used to sing. "We've come to steal your old black hen".
Other characters were incorparated in the act according to how "hangers-on" there were.
Sorry it's rather a jumble but it may be of use to you.
Langley Mlll 2779
35, Hall Lane, Old Brlnsley, Notts. 20th February 1972
P. T. Millington Esq., 85 woodland lane, Chapel Allerton, Leeds LS7 4QC.
Dear Mr. Millington,
Further to your letter of the 23rd January regarding the tune for "We8ve some to steal your old black hen", I have made several enquiries regarding this (being very non-musical myself) and have definitely decided that it was sung to the tune "Here we go round the Mulberry Bush}.
I was sorry to read of the poor response to your request but I feel sure there are many many people who well remember these words. One other "saying" I remember we used mostly with Christmas singing, which may be of interest to you was "Hole in me stocking, hole in me shoe, hole in me hat where me hair pokes through, If you haven't got a penny a ha'penny will do if you haven't got penny then God Bless you"
Yours sincerely
Barbara Faulconbridge (Mrs)
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