Coal Aston festivals
From International Robin Hood Bibliography
| Festivals | |
|---|---|
| Locality | Coal Aston |
| Vicinity | 1.5 km NNE of Dronfield |
| Coordinate | 53.313892, -1.461356 |
| Adm. div. | Derbyshire |
| Began | c. 1838 |
| Ended | c. 1858 |
| Events | Robin Hood's men in green coats; morris dancers |
Coal Aston.
Looking up the hillside to Coal Aston / Andrew Hill, 24 May 2011, Creative Commons, via Geograph.
By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2013-08-07. Revised by Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2021-01-07.
Record
Morris dancers, who generally came from Whittington, used to dance and sing on 'the Cross' at Cold-Aston thirty or forty years ago. They were a very numerous body, and were gaily dressed in many-coloured clothes.
I have seen 'Robin Hood's men' dressed in green coats.[1]
IRHB comments
Addy was about forty years old in 1888 when his Glossary containing this passage was published, so he cannot very well have had first-hand memories of morris troupes performing forty years earlier. In his entry on "morris-dance", Addy notes that "Fifty years ago and later Morris-dancers used to assemble in great numbers on 'The Cross' at Cold-Aston."[2]
Lists and gazetteers
- Outside scope of Lancashire, Ian, compil. Dramatic Texts and Records of Britain: a Chronological Topography to 1558 (Cambridge, 1984).
- Outside scope of Wiles, David. The Early Plays of Robin Hood (Cambridge, 1981), Appendix I.
Sources
- Addy, Sidney Oldall, ed. A Glossary of Words Used in the Neighbourhood of Sheffield, including a Selection of Local Names, and Some Notices of Folk-Lore, Games, and Customs [and] A Supplement to the Sheffield Glossary (English Dialect Society, Series C — Original Glossaries, No. 57) (London, 1888-91), p. xix; and see p. 151, s.n. 'morris-dance'.
Notes
- ↑ Addy, Sidney Oldall, ed. A Glossary of Words Used in the Neighbourhood of Sheffield, including a Selection of Local Names, and Some Notices of Folk-Lore, Games, and Customs [and] A Supplement to the Sheffield Glossary (English Dialect Society, Series C — Original Glossaries, No. 57) (London, 1888-91), p. xix.
- ↑ Addy. op. cit., p. 151, s.n. "morris dancers". Addy's italics.