The Morris Ring Archive
The Cheltenham Page

It is convenient for many Archive users to be able to consult material which is grouped together in easily accessable form by tradition or geographical location. The Ring Archive has collated such information and the items relating to Cheltenham, Gloucestershire are detailed below.

Itens marked with a [] are "Restricted to Archive" and are only available for consultation within the Archive, all others can ce suplied in photocopy form.

A. Published Sources.

• |Cheltenham Free Press, 29/5/1841, 5
  Cheltenham Examiner, 2/6/1841, 5
  Both record the local magistrates refusing to allow dancing.
  
• Cheltenham Journal, 23/5/1842, 2
  
• Cheltenham Examiner, 7/6/1843, 2
  Cheltenham Free Press, 1/6/1844, 173
  Cheltenham Free Press, 17/5/1845, 157
  Gloucester Journal, 17/5/1845, 3
  Cheltenham Examiner, 3/6/1846, 3
  Cheltenham Journal, 8/6/1846, 2
  Brief reports of Whitsuntide in Cheltenham.
  
• St Johnston, R., A History of Dancing, London: Simpkin Marshall & Co., (1906), 49-50.
  Report of dancing circa 1865.
  
• Byng, John, Torrington Diaries Containing the Tours Through England and Wales of the Hon. John Byng, 1781-1794, 4 Vols, (Ed. C.B. Andrews), London: , (1934-8), Vol 1 p124.
  Record of dancers seen by Byng in 1781.
  
• Chandler, K., An Analytical Checklist of Morris Dance Musicians, Eynsham: Chandler Publications, (1985), 27.
  Mention of the Cheltenham musician, as part of Chandler's analysis.
  
• Chandler, K, Morris Dancing in the English South Midlands, 1660-1900. A Chronological Gazetteer, London: Hisarlik Press, (1993), 72-73 .

B. Unpublished Material.

• C.J.Sharp, MSS, "Folk Dances", 1,
  f19.   Press cutting pasted into Sharp's MSS. 
  f86.   Interview with Thomas Phelps, Mayhill, 1909.
  f189. Interview with Thomas Phelps, Mayhill, nd.
  Available in original handwritten form and as a modern typescript copy.
  
  Further information is available in Sharp's Field Notebooks. Copies are not presently available in the Archive.
  
  A complete set of the above references can be supplied in a spiral binding. Price on application.
  
  

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