Some pictures from our archives.
The Wessex at Sherborne
Country Fair.
May 2002.
We are performing the Bean Setting Dance. We've bean doing it for years now and
have never had a single bean grow on that road.
Pic by Howard
Music session in the Halsey Arms,
Pulham.
November 2002.
Everbody looking baffled because Don's playing a tune we don't know.
(I'm sure he makes them up as he goes along.)
Thats me in the middle with the piano thingy. They put a chair
in front of me to stop me playing. It didn't work though. (where's my pint gone?)
Pic by Howard
Cheap Street,
Sherborne.
Christmas 2002.
Dancing our way from the George Inn at the top of Cheap Street, all the way
down to the Brittania.
Pic by Howard
Cerne Abbas, Christmas 2002.
Performing our Mumming Play which caused all the controversy about the two in a bar rule, which meant
that we had to perform the play in the street.
Pic by Howard.
Twelfth Night Faggot Burning
at the Hope and Anchor, Bridport.
January 2003.
The Faggot is the long stick thing at the front of the picture. It is approximately
thirteen foot long, with hazle bands every foot. One is supposed to drink a pint for each band burnt through. (good job we took the picture
early on).
Pic by Howard
(Howard is our Musician by the way,
pictured here to the left of the middle of the back row, with a dart score board attached to the back of his head).
All pictures Copyright © 2003 Wessex Morris Men.
