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Newsletter Summer 2014

Welcoming in the summer proved a little damp for some sides who were up at the crack on dawn on the 1st May, as the back page pictures show. Congratulations to Crook Morris who join the elite of the rapper sword teams by winning more than one category at the DERT weekend this year, plus  Jack Worth writes about the morris census, which he is undertaking across all three morris organisations.

View and download: Newsletter Summer 2014 (6Mb)

Contents:

  • Crook Morris Steal The Show
  • Morris Census
  • Trials & Tribulations Of A Treasurer
  • Premier Pitch For Jerusalem Jammers
  • 21 Ways To Celebrate 21 Years
  • Dancing With Staves
  • BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards
  • JMO Day of Dance, Cambridge
  • Paul White’s Diary
  • Thank You, Border Morris
  • What Do You Think You Look Like
  • It’s All About Spring
  • Scottish Border Morris
  • All On A May Morning
  • Literary Corner

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News

Practices go online

6 January 2021

Leeds Morris Men go digital

26 December 2020

Mummers Plays online

24 December 2020

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