Social couple dance known from oral tradition in the southern Lake District, Lancashire and Dorset. Sometimes known simply as The Schottische.
Known to have been taught by the following dancing masters:
Professor Airey of Kendal
Richard Allan of Langwathby
Mr Blackburn of Downham
Dizzy Bryden of Workington
Tommy Cannon of Underbarrow and Crosthwaite
Oliver Cowper of Workington
Mr Grudgeon of Clitheroe
Miss Harding of Ulverston, operating in the 1880s
“Pop” John Mason in Dent
Mr Ramage of Netherton
Alfred Threlfall Robinson
Joseph William Robinson (Old Jos)
Robert Carson Robinson operating in the MIllom and Barrow areas.
Stainton Robinson of Windermere
Billy Urquhart in Bleamoor, Ribblehead
Information derived from interviews by Tom Flett with:
- Akrigg, Mr & Mrs Jack
- Mr & Mrs Anning
- Barnes, Tom
- Bayne, Mr & Mrs William
- Beresford, Peter
- Birbeck, Mrs
- Gertrude Burton,
- Chapman, Brian
- Dorothy Chaplow
- Cowper, Beatrice
- Cowper, Elsie
- Cowper, Roland
- Dixon, B
- Gibson, Elizabeth
- Mrs Frances Gray
- Hales, Mr Charles
- Hilton, Miss (Keswick)
- Holgate, Tom J.
- Huddlestone, Mr & Mrs
- Keith, Gertrude
- Lynch, Mr & Mrs
- Middleton, Dick
- Miss Harding
- Oversby, Miss Mary
- Percy, Tom
- Riley, Emma C.
- Robinson, Addie
- Robinson, Grace
- Satterthwaite, Mr & Mrs T
- Miss Lucy Short
- Smith, Mrs & Mrs Walter
- Storey, Mrs W.
- Thompson, Mrs H
- Thwaite, Mr & Mrs
- Tully, Mr & Mrs William
- Whittle, Mr and Mrs John
- Winder, Richard
- Wood, Mr & Mrs FredSee also Soulby’s Ulverston Advertiser 2/1/1886 and 23/9/1886