Video collection
A collection of 50 short videos of Morris Federation sides will be released during 2025.
50 videos of 50 sides for the Morris Federation’s 50th anniversary!
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!
Featured side
Whitethorn Morris is a ladies-only North West Morris team, based in the London Borough of Harrow. We enjoy performing a variety of lively and traditional dances in our characteristic and recently redesigned red, white and blue kit. We are always on the lookout for women of any age to join for fun social exercise, as well as both men and women to play in the band.
The side was formed in 1977 as an off-shoot of the Flowers of May Morris. Our repertoire consists of dances that are predominantly from the North West of England, especially Lancashire and Cheshire and are performed in our own inimitable Whitethorn fashion. In addition, we perform a number of dances which we have ‘written’ ourselves. We dance using short sticks with bells on, mollies (another type of stick with its origins in the mill industry of the 19th century) and also with hooped garlands decorated in red, white and blue. Dancers wear leather-topped clogs with wooden soles which accentuate the rhythms played by the band, making for a great audio-visual spectacle. The all-important band consists of melodeons for the melody, a variety of stringed instruments such as guitar and banjo and, of course, drums. In fact, anything else that can be used to make a sound is acceptable – even a crowbar has been in use for years!
Although based in Harrow in North West London many of our members come from further afield – Hertfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Bedfordshire as well as other London boroughs.
- View our Teamfinder profile.
Download video
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 47 (between 19-25 November 2025).
Download short video: [landscape mode – File size: 33 MB] – [portrait mode – File size: 33 MB]
