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Overton School Maypole Dancers
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 Overton School Longsword Dancers
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 Six of the children of Lillian & Duffy Oram. Duffy used to play Father Christmas in the mummers in years gone by. Names ffom L to R: Alan, Lena Waller, Myrtle Brown, Hilda Newman, Rosina Vernon and Norman. Picture taken in St Mary's Hall garden.
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 The Batemans, Roger and Anne, outside their stationery shop in the High Street
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Mrs Lyn Macmillan of Mallards B&B , Trims Court, looking very fetching. (01256 770039 for bookings at Lyn's top class accomodation overlooking the river)
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 The mummers prior to going
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 The mummers setting off for their Winchester Street performance
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 The mummers in action. The play they perform uses a script from 1860 which was discovered in the Hampshire Records Office.
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The play is traditionally performed around the village on Boxing Day. The plot is based on the triumph of good (King George)over evil (Bold Slasher & the Turkish Knight)with the action overseen by Father Christmas.
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 Some of the characters are killed in the play but at the end they are raised from the dead. This is believed to symbolise the dying of the old year and the birth of the new.
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 The costumes are made of strips of bright wallpaper.With the addition of a few Christmas decorations and other bits at the whim of the performer.
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 Bold Slasher (Peter Baker) looking very threatening with his blow-up plastic hammer (a faithful reproduction based on 17th centuary drawings found with the original script)
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