Penkhull Domesday Morris dancers, black-faced, wearing long flowing torn old rags, clothing made from wide bolts material, clothes & dancing celebration, outdoors event, street dancer, costumed dancers at Holly Holy Day & Siege of Nantwich re-enactment. Holly Holy Day commemorates the lifting of the Siege of Nantwich during the English Civil War on 25th January 1644 and the name is derived from the locals wearing sprigs of holly in their hats to celebrate. The commemoration dates back over 40 years when a holly wreath-laying ceremony began organised by the Nantwich History Society
The term Border Morris refers to a collection of individual local dances from villages along the English side of the Wales-England border They are part of the Morris dance tradition. This was a village dance done in winter for fun and a bit of money. It usually includes three to twelve dancers. Some of the earliest accounts of a border morris tradition are provided by , all from villages within 14 miles of Hereford. The account claimed, "Hereford-shire for a morris-daunce puts downe, not onely all Kent, but verie neare (if one had line enough to measure it) three quarters of Christendome". Cawte quotes further accounts describing complaints to the local magistrates about disruptive morris dancers in Longdon, disrupting the Sabbath day from 1614 to 1617 and another account of dancers in Much Wenlock in 1652, causing a disturbance in an ale house at Nordley. Later records from Shrewsbury mention payment to the "Bedlam Morris" in 1688 and 1689. The dance depends on the numbers available, as at Brimfield. The dances collected from a particular place sometimes differ quite markedly between informants, as at White Ladies Aston, reflecting the flexibility from year to year. Sometimes a gang would only have one dance, sometimes two, or as at Malvern and Pershore an indeterminate set of figures. Widders with short sticks The common features are the rather short sticks and sometimes a stick and handkerchief version of the same dance, also usually a high single step akin to the local country dance step.
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Location: Nantwich, Cheshire, UK
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