Event | Bells | Ribbons | Coloured faces | Headgear | Other |
Gate to Southwell |
‘bells' |
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‘coats' |
Bradgate (Leics)
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‘painted morris-dancers' |
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Revesby (Lincs) |
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decorated in ribbons |
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Threekingham (Lincs) |
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shirts with ribbons |
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Doncaster |
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profusion of ribbons |
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‘fantastically attired in dresses of every variety of colour' |
Newstead Notts |
Hawks bells |
ribbands |
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Wheatley (Notts) |
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‘cowhides horns ' |
Dancing in animal skins |
Lincoln |
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Ribbon-bedecked |
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‘sword carrying' |
Lincolnshire (Mabel Peacock) |
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Ribbons in their hats/bunch of corn in their hats |
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Caunton (Notts) |
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coloured rags sown on their smocks |
faces raddled |
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Hemswell
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Hats trimmed with jewels |
‘jumping over the broomstick' |
Market Raisen (Lincs) |
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‘grotesque garb' |
Messingham (Lincs) |
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?disguised? |
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‘dressed as morris dancers and disguised' |
Kirton Lindsey (Peacock 1890) |
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very tall beribboned hats (sword dancers) |
white shirts over their clothes. These shirts should be trimmed with ribbons and other ornaments; |
Pollington |
bells on boots |
tatters |
blackened faces |
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‘tattered man' |
Sutton Bridge |
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Tall hats |
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Wainfleet |
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Animal skin plus straw in mouth (pig's bristles) |
Horses skull
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Snaith |
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Jackets with ribbons pinned on like streamers |
leader's face red and white stripes, rest blackened faces |
‘led by a man wearing a bull's head...
bowlers, flat caps, trilbies |
and carrying a club' no bells stripe of ribbon down leg of trousers |
Lincolnshire (Cranwell/ Dowsby) |
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Covered all over with coloured tatters |
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tall hats
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Holderness |
Bell strap below knee |
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‘burnt cork used to blacken faces' |
‘ordinary hats or failing a hat a tea-cosy with feathers thrust into the spout hole.' |
Tattered jackets Feathers thrust into any convenient place....boot tops, headgear, tied to arms.. Brooches and badges |
‘History of the county of Lincoln' J Saunders Jnr 1834 writing about the Haxey Hood
‘the plough bullocks or boggins.........they are dressed like morris dancers.'
Updated 10/11/2007 Chris Rose