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Bampton Traditional Morris Men

  • BCA - 2023.4136
  • Part
  • 1920

Sam Bennett born (1865-1951) from Ilmington, a frequent dancer and musician in Bampton, this photo dated 1920
Sam had the distinction of being called “a rotter” by Cecil Sharp. He was responsible for reviving the Morris tradition in the Warwickshire village of Ilmington. Although a fiddle player himself, he learned the tunes from a local pipe and tabor player, Tom Foster, who “no longer had enough teeth to hold the pipe in place” In the process of reviving the dances, Bennett did some improving and inventing along the way. To Sharp, this was inexcusable meddling; what he most treasured about traditional dance was that is was supposedly not the work of individual creativity, but of centuries of continuous evolution by the common, preferably uneducated people. Bennett was recorded in 1933 by a Harvard academic, James Madison Carpenter. Being a self-taught fiddler, and having learned his tunes directly from a piper, it is little wonder that his playing, though very rhythmic, was plain and unadorned except with frequent open-string drones.

Janet Westman

Bampton Traditional Morris Men

  • BCA - 2023.4137
  • Part
  • 1927

Black and white photo of Morris dancers taken on 6th June 1927
left to right Tanner snr. Billy Flux, E Lay, Hudson. Bertie Hunt, Freddie Tanner, (written on back)

Janet Westman

Morris Dancing Clothing worn by Jingy Wells

  • BCA - 2022.3731
  • Part
  • 1930

10 Individual photographs of Morris Dancer's garments worn by Jingy Wells ,
Painting by of Jingy Wells plus fiddle by Bateman

Janet Westman

Bampton Traditional Morris Men 1934

  • BCA - 2023.4138
  • Part
  • 1934

Black and white photo of Morris dancers taken on in 1934
Jingy Wells on fiddle, George 'Punch' Smith, Reg Whitlock Dancer

Janet Westman

Bampton Traditional Morris Men 1958

  • BCA - 2023.4171
  • Part
  • 1958

Bertie Clark. Fiddle rear Harry Hampton (fool) Peter Alum, George Hunt, Bobby Wells cake
Bertie (1877.-1958) was another Bampton Morris fiddler, but unlike Wells
was not born into the tradition. He was brought up in London, where he worked at a railway depot
in Camden Town. He had some violin lessons, and played in the railway staff orchestra. Sometime
before the Great War he moved to Carterton, the village next to Bampton. When in 1926 Jinky Wells
had a falling-out with his Morris side, and went off to form his own, Bertie Clark was invited to be
fiddler for the original Bampton Morris; he initially learned the tunes from Cecil Sharp’s published
manuscripts (presumably relations with Wells were such that he wasn’t going to teach them to
Bertie himself!) Recordings of his playing made in 1958 appear on Rig-a-jig jig; dance music of the
south of England from Topic Records’ "Voice of the People" collection. A listen to his playing is very
instructive. At the time he would have been 81 years old, was quite likely well out of practice and
possibly arthritic.

Janet Westman

Traditional Morris at Bampton and Biographical Information

  • BCA - 2023.4111
  • Part
  • 1880

Information about the Morris Dancers written by Arnold Woodley, Frank Woodley and Sonny Townsend
Families mentioned as follows:
Dixey
Radband
Flux
Hudson
Lay
Pettifer
Smith
Butler
Brooks
Dafter
Fidler
Kerry
Brown
Tanner
Woodley
Townsend
Cassiday
Fowler
Pearman
Woodley
Buckingham
Picketts
Edington
Hunt

Janet Westman

Bampton Traditional Morris Men 1970

  • BCA - 2023.4141
  • Part
  • 1970

Black and white photo of Morris dancers taken in 1970 in Deanery Gardens
Left to right, on extreme left Roy Shergold fool, Bill Daniels, centre
of picture Frank Daniels, Terry Rouse, Dave Rose’s face just seen on
the right.

Janet Westman

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