Record of John White's memoirs created by his great great great grandchild AKA Jackie White. 1824-1905 Resident of Sandford Cottage married Ann Bedwell (servant of Dr. John Allen Giles)
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
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
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)