Compilation of Mention of Morris Dancer in local Newspapers from 1887 to 1977
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Compilation of Mention of Morris Dancer in local Newspapers from 1887 to 1977
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Bampton Traditional Morris Men 1974
Dancing outside the Talbot. Dave Rose, 1974
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Bampton Traditional Morris Men 1973
Black and white photo taken in 1973 of Frank Daniels, in Market Square
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Bampton Traditional Morris Men
Bampton Traditional Morris. Tony Allam in 1973.
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Bampton Traditional Morris Men
Bampton Traditional Morris. Frank Daniels older brother of Bill in 1973. outside Town Hall
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Traditional Morris at Bampton and Biographical Information
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
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Bampton Traditional Morris Men 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.
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Bampton Traditional Morris Men 1970
B/W Photo of Morris Dancers Dancing in the grounds of the Deanery in 1975. A young Tony Daniels nearest the camera.
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Bampton Traditional Morris Men 1968
Black and white photo of Morris dancers taken in 1968 in Ireland
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Bampton Traditional Morris Men 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.
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