Dancers at Church Gate House 1973

PDF Handwritten notes by Keith Chandler about Arnold Woodley restarting his Morris Team lots of facts about members of the team.
Listed below
Albert Townsend
Alec Wixey
Alistair Cook
Andrew Bathe
Andrew Carruthers
Andrew Pearman
Anthony Collett
Arnold Woodley
Bernie Basson
Clive Tanner
Colin Bathe
Colin Knight
Colin Leach
Charlie Buckingham
Don Fidler
Frank Purslow
Fred Fowler
Fred Scott
Geoffrey Adams
Graham Cook
Jim Townsend
Julian Fidler
John Pearman
John Titchener
Johnnie Buckingham
Ken Andrews
Lawrence Adams
Malcolm Willis
Martin Hewett
Mathew Green
Matt Curruthers
Mike Bowden
Nick Carruthers
Patrick Wixey
Paul Wixey
Richard Buckingham
Robin Connaughton
Steve Govier
Trevor Hewett

Photograph by Michael Cooper showing Morris Dancers in Church View with names
2004

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.

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)

Photo of Morris Dancers taken in 1978 at Greyshott House
left to right Bill Daniels, Reg Hall on Fiddle, Terry Rouse

Black and White Photo of Reg Hall taken in 1978 at Greyshott House, from Colin Hicks

Dancing on Deanery Lawn Francis Shergold, Cyril Smith, poss Dave Rose, Terry Rouse

Photo of Francis Shergold and Bob Allison described as a lovely man he was the
Cake bearer 1962-1989. Died 1994.

Rod Stradling melodeon, Roy Shergold Fool, Cyril Smith, Tony Applegate, Terry Rouse