Morris Dancing!
Child #4 isn’t very well today and I don’t do ill children (if you don’t know, I’m not telling!) so Mrs Sane dispatched me with #1, #2 and #3 to Ironbridge.
Regular readers may recall that I got a passport allowing unlimited access to all the Ironbridge museums for the bargain price of £24 through my employer. We’ve certainly made full use of the passport since getting it – we’ve been to Blists Hill a couple of times and Enginuity about 5 times.
Enginuity is brilliant but there’s only so many times you can go to the same place and play with the same stuff so we went for a look around the Tile Museum and then went to the Ironbridge for a look round the toll house. That’s when we came across these guys:
I’ve lived no more than 10 minutes away from Ironbridge my whole life and didn’t even know there was a morris dancing group in Ironbridge! These lot are called the Iron Men and Severn Gilders. It was really nice to see some traditional English public entertainment – even the obligatory 5 million Japanese tourists that frequent Ironbridge every weekend (ok, there were actually about 10) found it most entertaining.
Here are some pictures and the original 3gp video file which is much better quality than the YouTube version above …
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cool
I wonder what it all means
October 5th, 2008 at 6:44 pmShagging I expect, morris dancing usually is.
October 5th, 2008 at 6:54 pmOoooh right, up here shagging usually involves getting naked and doing rude things with rude parts
October 5th, 2008 at 8:17 pmIs that brilliant pork pie shop near the ironbridge still on the go?
October 8th, 2008 at 2:41 amYep, it’s still there.
October 8th, 2008 at 6:41 amWhat’s it called? I’ve been missing the flavour of those things since 1992…
October 10th, 2008 at 12:54 am