4th October 2014
We were very grateful today to have Roy
Smith giving a talk, one of the leading Morris Men in the north west
of England and historically quite a significant figure in the art. He
was responsible for the book produced for Leyland Morris Men's
centenary and has undertaken a tremendous amount of work collecting
photographs and reminiscences of the early days of the Morris Men.
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We were pleased to have him here today
because not only is he a great exponent himself but he is so very
knowledgeable on the subject.
Roy is particularly keen in collecting
old photographs of the Morris Men and hopes to identify new trends
and individuals and if you wished to contact him on this he would be
very pleased to hear from you. He is also doing a lot of work with
us at the museum trying to trace early film of the Morris Men as he
suspects the earliest film of morris dancing is actually of the
Leyland Morris Men in east Lancashire in 1902. We know the 1905
Leyland Festival was very carefully filmed by Mitchell and Kenyon and
we are hoping to have this at the museum for our Festival Exhibition
planned for 2015.
Do visit the Leyland Morris Men website
at www.leylandmorrismen.co.uk
