Here's a health to the barley mow : a century of folk customs and ancient rural games
VDVD 080 Sound Library Here's a health to the barley mow : a century of folk customs and ancient rural games - EFDSS, BFI, 2011. - 2 DVDs (365 mins) colour, sound
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Disc One : Dance and song : Films taken from kinora spools made in 1912 -- Bampton broom and morris dance (c. 1927) -- Sword dances in North Skelton, Handsworth, Sleights, Westerhope and Grenoside (1926) -- Dances by Ilmington teams in the grounds of Peter De Montfort's house 1220 AD. Fiddler Sam Bennet (c. 1928-36) -- Abbots Bromley, Painswick and Bampton (c. 1928-36) -- High Spen Sword Dancers (c. 1928) -- Bacup Coconut dancers (1930) -- Grenoside Long Sword dancers (1938) -- Wake up and dance (1950) -- Here's a health to the barley mow (1952) -- Winlaton sword dance from Mining Review 8th year no. 5 (1955) -- Dick Hewitt The Norfolk Step Dancer with Percy Brown - melodeon (1979) -- The Flora Faddy Furry Dance (1989) -- Rapper Dancers at The National (2003) -- Extreme sports : Newsreels : Shrove Tuesday football games (1921-29) -- 600 year old custom! (1927) -- The Game of Haxey Hood (1929) -- Handba' at Kirkwall, Orkney (1939) -- New Year Fireball Festival, Stonehaven (1965) -- News Stories : Shrove Tuesday in the 1960s (1965-66) -- Ancient and traditional sport of Dwile Flonking (1966) -- Dwile Flonking from Harleston (1967) -- The barrel rolling, Ottery St Mary (2000) -- Shrovetide football, Ashbourne (2000) -- Hare pie and bottle kicking, Hallaton (2005). Disc 2 : Mummers and Hobbyhorses : The Tichborner mummers' play (1919) -- Walk in St George (1952) -- Oss Oss Wee Oss (1953) -- Derby Tup (1974); All manner of customs : Newsreels : Greater London May Queens (1922-30) -- Llandudno May Queens (1927-29) -- Boy Bishop of Berden (1927) -- Merrie England (1928) -- One potato, two potato (1957) -- Castleton garland day (1957) -- Election of new mayor of Harwich and the traditional ceremony of throwing kitchels (1962) -- All manner of customs (1965) -- Informal gurning contest at whitley bay (1963) -- Girl wearing earring at school dispute (1966) -- Children of the moor (1975) -- The face of a county (1976) -- Castleton's traditional garland day (2000) -- The burry man of South Queensferry (2000-02).
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