Stephen Payne relaxing to watch the Morris Dancing
- BCA - 2021.2578
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- 2007
Stephen Payne relaxing while enjoying watching the Bampton Morris Men on Bank Holiday Monday.
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Stephen Payne relaxing to watch the Morris Dancing
Stephen Payne relaxing while enjoying watching the Bampton Morris Men on Bank Holiday Monday.
Bampton Community Archive
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
Bampton Community Archive
Morris Dancing in the Market Square by a visiting side
These three photographs are of one of the visiting sides to Bampton in 1985 dancing in the Market Square outside the Village Hall in two pictures and at the West end of the Square in the third picture.
Bampton Community Archive
Bampton Traditional Morris Men, May 2018
The first picture shows the dancers of the Bampton Traditional Morris Men who were out dancing on May 28th 2018.
Two dancers were unable to dance that day, Martin Landray who broke his ankle two days earlier when taking part in the Shirt Race and Guy Wiseman.
The remaining pictures were taken at many places during the day.
Bampton Community Archive
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.
Bampton Community Archive