Mumming Night: A memory of Bradford

Mumming Night

A Memory of Bradford.

I was born in 1953 and live at Number 2 Thornton Square just on the opposite side of Manchester Road to Ryan Street where I went mumming down to Donisthorpe Street where my Great Auntie Doris lived. I was dressed in what was called a siren suit in red with a pointy bit at the top of the head.
It is lovely to hear of someone else who remembers mumming night.

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Hello Angela Jordan, I was also born in Bradford in 1953, in my Grandmother's home in Bardon Street and lived in Baird street. Unfortunately my family moved to Birmingham in the early 1960s. I remember Maningham Park with the big statue,, the fields at the bottom of Baird Street, the Bradford Pipe Band playing in the square and the trolley buses.

By Shirley Sura on Fri Sep 16th 2016, at 9:54 pm

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I was born at 1, Westbrook terrace, Bradford, now demolished and under the college. We used to go mumming, it consisted of dusting round peoples houses with feather dusters, whilst making a humming sound, to this day I don't know what it was all about. I was born in 1947 and remember this from the early 1950s.

By brianpick on Fri Oct 13th 2017, at 2:50 pm

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