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Bampton Traditional Morris Men 1914

BCA - 2023.4174
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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

Janet Westman

Morris Dancing, possibly 1913

BCA - 2017.1128
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c1913

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 Morris Dancers - A Chronology

BCA - 2023.4166
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1790-1900

A Chronology of Performance in Bampton. itemising the events and names of the various dancers from 1790 through to the 1900's

Janet Westman

Bampton Traditional Morris Men outside Elephant and Castle early 1900

BCA - 2023.4255
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1900s

Old photograph of the Dancers outside The Elephant and Castle, Bridge Street early 1900s

Janet Westman

Morris Dancing in the Market Square 1897

BCA - 2021.2561
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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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