Whitethorn Morris Dance At The Coach And Horses On Croxley Green

A Memory of Croxley Green.

For many years in the 1980s and 1990s morris dancers performed outside the two lovely pubs on Croxley Green - the Coach and Horses and the Artichoke. Whitethorn Morris frequently chose these pubs as their venues for Boxing Day entertainment. The Whitethorn Band provided lively music and I would lead this on my accordian. The dancers put on an exciting visual display in their red white and blue kit and shiny clogs with bells, the surrounding crowd of onlookers would cheer and clap while stamping their feet in the frosty air and we musicians would blow on our fingers to try and keep them warm! Sometimes other Boxing Day revels took place and we would see a procession of vintage cars and bikes including a "penny farthing bike".  It was great fun. I sometimes wonder what my old school music teacher Mr Stoupe at Pinner Grammar School would have made of it as he didn't consider me good enough to study "GCE O Level Music" in school back in 1959!


Added 26 December 2006

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