Hilton, Miss (Keswick)

331-333 Cecil Sharp MSS dance description entries 1962 People: Mrs Scott Mrs Scott’s 1914 Dances: Square Eight-Reel Long-eight-reel Six-reel Four-reel Three-reel Miss […]

Flett Manuscript Collection – England

Thomas Muirhead Flett and his wife Joan were prolific collectors of traditional dance. Beginning in the Western Isles in 1953, they systematically […]

Dances Collected in England with Stepping

Here you can find information on dances collected from oral tradition which have, as part of their choreography, a stepping phase or […]

Social Dances – Collected in England

This page  contains information on specific dances .  In most cases, where a lot of information is known about a particular dance the name […]

Cannon, Tommy

Dancing master from Underbarrow and later Crosthwaite, Cumbria.  Also taught in Kendal. Born c. 1860.  In 1913 he moved to Scarfoot and […]

E.M. Leather, 1912

E.M. Leather, Folk-Lore of Herefordshire, Hereford: Jakeman & Carver, (1912), 286pp.

Coward, Mr Fred & Mrs L (Hawkshead)

Clog and step dancers from Hawkshead.  Both taught by Joseph Robinson (Old Jos)  at Ambleside. Mr Coward (b. 1882) started in 1892 […]

Dancers and informants

This page  contains information on dancers and informants .  Brief details are given below. The name links to a separate page containing the […]

C. Metherell, 1985

C. Metherell, “Repertoire Building. Lakeland”, Instep, 15, (1985), [8-10].

Hawes, Mrs Mary

Clog and step dancer.  Pupil of Tommy Cannon. Her grandmother (born c. 1837) attended dancing classes in Dentdale when living at Haverthwaite […]