Morris Dancing in the Market Square 1897
This is one of the earliest photograph of the Bampton Morris Men taken in 1897, Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee year.
The dancers are
George Wells/Taylor
Thomas William Tanner
Joseph Rouse
Robert Dixey
George Dixey
James Dewe
Charles Henry Tanner, ragman
Henry Radband, sword carrier
William Nathan Wells, fool, known as Jingy
Richard Decimus Butler, musician
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Bampton Morris Dancers - A Chronology
A Chronology of Performance in Bampton. itemising the events and names of the various dancers from 1790 through to the 1900's
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Bampton Traditional Morris Men outside Elephant and Castle early 1900
Old photograph of the Dancers outside The Elephant and Castle, Bridge Street early 1900s
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Morris Dancing in Bampton 1912
This newspaper sketch shows the fiddler Billy Wells - better known as Jingy Wells. Second from the left is Charles 'Cocky Tanner', the Bagman.Charles danced for forty years. At the back can be seen the Fool, Dave Edginton and at the front, extreme right, is Thomas 'Buscot' Tanner, the Squire.
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These photographs are very likely to have been taken in 1913. The fiddler dancing a jig to his own playing is William Nathan Wells, better known as Jingy.
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Bampton Traditional Morris Men 1914
Article about Morris Dancing of Bampton in the Bush from the Reading Standard 25th July 2014?. edited from Article in Daily Chronicle September 1914, both copies attached
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Photo of Billy Dewe with another Morris Dancer possibly standing outside a cottage in Lavender Square
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William Nathan 'Jingy' Wells playing the fiddle in 1923
William Nathan 'Jingy' Wells danced, fooled and played the fiddle for Bampton Morris from the late nineteenth century and well into the twentieth.
In this picture he is seen with his fiddle.
The hat, waistcoat, trousers and socks (odd socks) are still cared for by the Bampton Traditional Morris Men.
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Morris Men outside the Elephant & Castle c1924
Bampton Morris dancers c1924/5 outside the Elephant & Castle.
The sign over the pub door says Posting House, Horses, Carriages, Brakes. Personal attention given, Albert Townsend. The 3rd and 4th lines are hard to read which is a pity but it looks like 'For Hire All Trains Met On The Shortest Notice.
On 23rd September 1935 the Townsend family moved across the road to Castle View and made a farm of it having much more room to fatten more pigs.
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Jingy Wells playing the fiddle
Photo taken 1925 outside the Elephant and Castle. Jingy Wells is playing the fiddle and Reg Tanner is to the left of him as you look at the photo.
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