Morris Dancing , for the uninitiated, can be a surprisingly varied and creative activity, bringing together invention in costume, performance and music, with wit and humour, whilst at the same time maintaining (or creating) local traditions.




Morris dancers dancing outside Selfridge Store Birmingham

'North-west clog' dancers outside the Selfridges building in Birmingham (top)(MS24)


Lower legs of 'cotswold' morris dancers bells, leggings, and sticks

'Traditional' Cotswold Morris Dancers. (bottom left)

Morris dancers near to the Rotunda Birmingham

Morris Dancers near the 'Rotunda' in Birmingham. (bottom middle)


Blurred image of colourful Border moving morris dancers

Rag-jacketed Border Morris Dancers in action. (bottom right)

Tryptych - Morris Dancers in action. (Roll over to see the open version.)

Roll over image of a tryptych based upon moving morris dancers
'Dig for Shakespeare'

equipment on the dig sitefirst grass sod cut
trenches in the garden of Shakespeares last home

A project conceived by the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust and Birmingham Archaeology.
Photographs recording the progress of the dig throughout 2010

Shakespeare Dig Album

former dining bus used on film locations in the Midlands, and other scrapped vehicles: album 'Vehicle Breakers'Close view of old dining bus in breaker's yard Close view of scrapped Hyster fork lift

Vertical truck exhaust pipe in breakers yard Truck cab in breakers yard

So many things that surrounded us prompt us into considering what life must have been like for other people in different circumstances and at different times.

When those things have been left and abandoned, it seems to heighten the experience.


Etcetera Albums