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Halifax
Harrogate
  • Chewit Well Mummers
    Traditional style mummers play: performing mainly at Christmas time.
    Contact: Bob Carter
    Brookside Cottage, Forest Moor Road, Knaresborough, North Yorkshire HG5 8JY
    Telephone / Fax: 01423 863433
    Email: bjcarter@ntlworld.com

Heptonstall
  • Heptonstall Pace Eggers
    Men's Good Friday Play Mumming play.
    Meets Wednesdays
    Contact: David Burnop
    Telephone: 01422 846277
    Email: burnop@btinternet.com
Huddersfield
  • Sla'wit Guise
    Processional team with Nathandrial the Colne Valley Giant.
    New members always welcome.
    Contact: Dave Ellis
    Telephone: 01484 846611
    Email: dellis@btinternet.com
Knaresborough
  • Knaresborough Mummers
    Performing the Marton cum Grafton play round Christmas, plus a repertoire of about 30 plays for other times of the year including local plays such as The White Boy from the Hebden Bridge area. Formed 1974.
    Meets at Borough Bailiff, Knaresborough; first Thursday of the month. Workshops available.
    Contact: John Burrell
    8, Sutton Grange Close, Harrogate HG3 2UR
    Telephone: 01423 566112
    Email: johnburrell@rapidial.co.uk
    Website: http://www.knaresboroughmummers.org.uk/
Ripon
  • Ripon Sword Dancers
    Traditional Ripon mummers. Though called "Sword Dancers", the team doesn't actually dance but does mumming on Boxing Day morning.
    Contact: Paul Freeman
    Telephone: 01765 603133

  • Wakeman Mummers
    Perform around Christmas time. Traditional, local and written plays.
    Contact: Roy Waite
    12 Church Lane, Ripon, North Yorkshire HG4 2ES
    Telephone: 01765 600480
    Email: roy@roywaite.freeserve.co.uk
Ripponden Scunthorpe
  • Coleby Plough Jag
    Revival Plough play performed regularly on Saturday nearest to Plough Monday / January 6th each year in Gainsborough / Scunthorpe area in pubs and public places since 1973. Occasional special performances through the year.
    Contact: Steve Hindley
    11 West Common Crescent, Scunthorpe, North Lincolnshire, DN17 1DH
    Telephone: 01724 864957
    Email: steve.hindley@lineone.net
Sheffield
 

 
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