The Morris Ring Archive
The Amble 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 Amble, Northumberland 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.

• Cassie, Bill "Rapper Knots from Amble and Bedlington", Folk Music Jounal, Vol 1 No 2 (1966), p98-100.
  Contains brief background information and notations for a number of figures.

B. Unpublished Material.

• TS material from B.Hayden and J.Mellor
  Hayden and Mellor were the two main collectors of material from Amble. The TS are dated 1960 and 1963, although it appears that the collecting was done in 1959/60.
  
• Undated letter from W.F. Cassie to EFDSS.
  The letter describes in brief detail how the Amble dance came to be collected.
  
• TS Material Collected by R.Marriott 13/9/58.
  Brief note of details recovered by Marriot from his first meeting with the dancers.
  Note. This information is available only in fair copy typed form. Unfortunately the original, in the Helm Collection, is badly faded and not suitable for reproduction.
  
  A complete set of the above references can be supplied in a spiral binding. Price on application.
  
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