NEWS 2009!Summer
dancing programme:
| May | May Morning
| Radcliffe
Square, Broad Street etc., Oxford | | Saturday 2 May | The
Tortoise Fair, Corpus Christi College 2pm | | Tuesday 12 May | Blackbird
Leys 6pm (private function); Prince of Wales, Iffley, 7.30pm | | Friday
15 May | Blenheim Palace (private function) | | Wednesday
20 May | Marston: Red Lion 7.30pm, and Victoria Arms 9.00pm |
| Saturday 23 May | Oxford-Bonn Celebrations, Bonn Square |
| Thursday 28 May | Steventon: 7.45pm Cherry Tree, 8.45pm North
Star, as guests of Abingdon Traditional Morris Dancers | | Saturday
30 May | Ribbon Walk, Blenheim Palace, (charity event) | | June |
| Wednesday 3 June | Dancing in City centre, meet in Far from Madding
Crowd 7.30pm | | Saturday 6 June | Stoke Row Steam Rally,
Highmoor | | Wednesday 10 June | Osney Island: Hollybush
7.30pm, Waterman's Arms 9.00pm | | Saturday 13 June | Jericho
Street Fair 12.00 noon, 'Oxford Unlocked' Oxford Castle 2.00pm |
| Tuesday 16 June | Headington Hill Hall 7pm
(private) | | Saturday 20 June | Wolvercote Village Fair |
| Wednesday 24 June | Oxford: Jericho 7.30pm, Rose & Crown,
North Parade | | Saturday 27 June | Three Horseshoes, Towersey
4.00 pm | | July | | Wednesday
1 July | The Northern Territories: Falkland Arms, Great Tew 7.30pm, The
Fox, Middle Barton 9pm | | Wednesday 8 July | Islip: Red
Lion 7.30pm, The Swan 9.00pm | | Friday 10 July | Divinity
School 6.30pm (private function) | | Saturday 11 July | Moonlight
Stroll, St Edwards School, (charity event) |
|
The 100th Tour took us to Uganda to help celebrate
St George's Day, 2008.
We returned to Africa this year, with a Tour to Kenya
in April. 
(l to r) John Stott, David Henthorn,
John Corlett, Gerard Robinson, Neil McKay
(front row) John Dawson, Garry Gibbons
The Ancient Men performing
Young Collins (Bledington) at the Equator on 23rd April 2008.
(0 0' 0.00",
+32 2' 23.21" according to GPS) | An
on-line 'Google map' of the Tours is now available,
as is the Google 'photo album'.
- If you would like more information about joining OUMM or are a former
member please complete the CONTACT
form or e-mail The Squire: Squire@am39.com.
- Practices
take place on Wednesday evenings from 7.30pm to 9.00pm at St Barnabas School in
Jerico from October to April, in collaboration with Oxford City Morris Men. New
members are always welcome.
50 Years young and
still going strong!The Ancient Men undertook their first
tour in 1952 which was based at Fairford, Gloucestershire in collaboration with
The Travelling Morrice. Since then they toured far and wide, from New Mexico to
Japan; more than 100 tours in over 12 countries. To celebrate our Golden Jubilee
we revisited the very first tour during August 2002, also accompanied by The Travelling
Morrice. However the first and only recorded tour by Oxford University Mens
Morris was based at Trefusis in Cornwall in 1929. TOURS: 2009:
- Nairobi, Kenya, April
- The Chilterns, July/August
Previous
year's tours: (more evidence of our activity can be
seen on Picasaweb and
YouTube.)
-
Ancient Wiltshire 30 July - 6 August 2006, Tour 96.  
Happy Chaps on the Wiltshire
Tour. ('photos Tim Hutton) 
left to right:
John Stott, Capt Bob, John Forrest,
Tim Diaper (kneeling), Gerard Robinson, Badger Blinco (crouching),
Garry Gibbons, Big John, Chris Sheffield
Contact details:"The
Squire"
Neil "Mac" McKay: e-mail: Squire
@am39.com
"The Cyber-Squre/Bagman"
Gerard Robinson:
e-mail: CyberSquire @am39.com "International
Tours"
Prof. John Forrest: e-mail: International @am39.com
Information regarding activies in the area, including a list of local morris
sides, can be obtained from: Oxfordshire Folk Association
Footnotes:
- ' Tradition is a burden
imposed by the dead on the living.' Radio 4, Today Programme, 1996
- 'Not
every tradition, however entrenched, is attractive. Some should be closed down
immediately.' Anon.
- 'Mutliplicanda non sunt rea plurima quam oportet'
- William of Occam
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