A collection of 50 short videos of Morris Federation sides will be released during 2025.
The Morris Federation is celebrating its 50th anniversary in 2025. To celebrate this occasion during 2025 we will be publishing short videos which feature 50 Morris Federation sides.
The videos will be available on YouTube. In addition we will be inviting the featured sides to download videos of their side which they are free to use as they see fit: the videos could be uploaded to the side’s YouTube, Instagram, TikTok or similar video hosting account; posted on social media services such as Facebook; added to the side’s website – or used in other ways as the side sees fit!
Pump House Clog Morris are a friendly and welcoming mixed North West Morris Side from Watford in Hertfordshire. New members are always welcome. Learn some traditional English dances and enjoy dancing out at events, both locally and further afield at Festivals and Days of Dance.
Most of our dances originate from the mill towns of Lancashire and surrounding counties, hence North West Morris. When the English textile industry was at its peak, the mill girls wore clogs to work in, and perhaps to distract themselves from the noise and monotony of the work, they would move their feet to the rhythm of the looms and eventually turning these rhythms into dances which would have been performed at festivals such as Easter, Christmas and May Day. Today we perform dances, sometimes passed on from other sides, and some we adapt to suit our style. Sometimes we might perform a dance from a different ‘style’ just to keep life interesting!
The following short video (available in landscape and portrait formats) are also available on YouTube. Note these videos are due to be published in week 37 (between 10-16 September 2025).
Download short video: (landscape mode) – (portrait mode)
To download click on link and then right-click video and chose Save video or similar option (may differ on browsers).
See the “Dissemination Channels for your Side’s Videos” document for suggestion on how to use the video.
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