A social dance for six, recorded from oral tradition from the southern Lake District where it featured in the repertoires of a number of dancing masters.
The dance was taught by:
Richard Allen of Langwathby
Tommy Cannon of Crosthwaite
“Pop” John Mason in Dent
Joseph William Robinson (“Old Jos”)
Robert Carson Robinson operating in the Millom and Barrow areas
Thomas Stainton of Backbarrow
Billy Urquhart in Bleamoor, Ribblehead
Full or partial notations for the dance were collected from Lucy Short (with Clara Boyle), Mr and Mrs Akrigg, Bayne, Mr & Mrs William and Tom Percy
Information derived from interviews by Tom Flett with:
- Airey, Mrs George
- Akrigg, Mr & Mrs Jack
- Barnes, Tom
- Batty, Mrs Arthur
- Bayne, Mr & Mrs William
- Birbeck, Mrs
- Brindle, Septimus
- Brown, Mrs David
- Theodore Cannon
- Dorothy Chaplow
- Chapman, Brian
- Cookson, Mr & Mrs
- Gibson, Elizabeth
- Halliwell, Mrs Belle
- Hilton, Miss (Keswick)
- Hird, Mrs Florence
- Hobson, William B
- Keith, Gertrude
- Leak, Mr .A
- Lynch, Mr & Mrs
- Middleton, Dick
- Miss Lucy Short
- Oversby, Miss Mary
- Pedder, Jack
- Percy, Tom
- Raw, Mrs
- Ridding, Mrs S.E.
- Robinson, Addie
- Smith, Mrs & Mrs Walter
- Thwaite, Mr & Mrs
- Tully, Mr & Mrs William
- Wannop, Mr & Mrs
- Whittle, Mr and Mrs John, Workington, Cumberland, England, 4 January 1960
- Winder, Richard