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SPORTS HISTORY STUFF
1) Public school links
2) Popular Recreation near you !!
3) Origins of UK football clubs
4) Some interesting facts and terms
Need some new history resources check out the follwoing site for news of some great new books on sports history www.playedinbritain.co.uk
Two really great sports history site I have just come across:
http://www.staffs.ac.uk/sportshistory
http://www.truebrits.tv this site inlcude video clips of many pop recreations you can download
PUBLIC SCHOOL LINKS
http://www.rugbyschool.net/
http://www.etoncollege.com/default.asp
http://www.harrowschool.org.uk/
http://www.winchestercollege.org/default.asp
http://www.shrewsbury.org.uk/
Popular Recreations try this link
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~cornwall/ball/shroveball.htm
Below is a list of sporting activities that date back from the popular recreartion era, see if there is one in your area. They can be a really good way of bringing the study of sports history alive. If I have missed an activity in your area or you would like to add any comments please contact me via the feedback page.
For a more comprehensive review check out
http://www.mystical-www.co.uk/folkcal.htm
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St. Columb Major, Cornwall Hurling the Silver Ball
Shrove Tuesday
A game between villages using a ball of applewood covered in silver
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Padstow, Cornwall Annual festival of the "Hobby hoss"
May Day
A man dressed as a horse dances through streets of town
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Helston, Cornwall The Furry Dance
8th May / Floral Day
Dancers and town band dance through the streets and houses of the village
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Ottery St Mary, Devon Tar Barrel Rolling
5th November
Races involving people through the streets with flaming tar barrels on their back.
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Minehead, Somersett Hobby Hoss Fair
May Day
A man dressed as a horse dances through streets of town - ancient fertility rites celebrating the coming of spring
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Abbotsbury, Dorset Garland Day
May 13(if Sunday May 12th)
Garlands traditionally thrown into the sea to ensure a good fishing catch.
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Corfe castle, Dorset Ancient Company of Marblers Meet
Shrove Tuesday
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Midhurst, Sussex Stoolball
Summer Evenings
A cricket type game begun in the C15th, 11 aside underarm bowling, wicket is a stool mounted on a stake
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Tinsley Green, Sussex Marbles Championship
Outside Greyhound Pub Good Friday
Now named the British Individual Marbles Championship
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Bodiam, East Sussex Pancake Race
Shrove Tuesday Race only open to women
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Whittlesey, Cambridgeshire The Straw Bear Festival
Saturday before Plough Monday
A straw bear is led through the streets accompanied by dancers and musicians and is then burnt on the next Sunday
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Brockworth, Gloucs Cheese Rolling
Cooper's Hill Spring Bank Holiday
Wooden cheeses are rolled down hill, if you can catch one you win a real chese
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Painswick, Gloucs Clipping Ceremony
St Mary's Church Sunday following 19th Sept.
Children form circle around church and recreate ancient dance
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Chipping Campden, Gloucs Cotswold Games/ Dovers OlympicksDover's Hill
Whitsun
A festival of traditional sports and games re-enacting Dover's Games of the C17th
http://www.stratford-upon-avon.co.uk/ccolymp.htm
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Hallaton, Leics Bottle Kicking & Hare Pie Scramble
Easter Monday
Villages from Hallaton, Horninghold, and Medbourne compete to push two small caks of beer ("bottles") over the stream - the winners get to drink the beer
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Waltham Cross Bakers V Sweeps football match
Boxing day
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London Doggett's Coat & Badge Race
Late July/Early Aug
The Thames Watermen Rowing Race
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Cilgerran, Pembrokeshire Coracle Races
River Teifi August
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Abbots Bromley, Staffs The Horn Dance
Monday after 4th September
Anglo Saxon dance involing men dressed in reindeer antlers , a fool and hobby-horse
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Winster , Derbyshire Pan Cake Race
Shrove Tuseday
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Ashbourne, Derbyshire Shrovetide Football Match
2 pm Market Place Shrove Tuesday
Uppers and downers play erach other at football on a pitch 3 miles widewww.shrovetide.com
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Burbage, Nr Buxton Clipping the church
July
Local people clip (encircle) the church and dance
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Haxey Leis/lincs border Haxey Hood Game
Played on the "Hoodlands" 6th January Dating from C13thwhen the hood of Lady de Mowbray was blown away and retrieved by local peasants, A hood is thrown into the crowd and the winner is the one who gets the hood into a local inn
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Preston, Lancs Egg Pacing
Easter Monday
Ancient custom
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Appelby, Cumberland Sulky Trotting Races
Spring Bank Mon & Tues
Horse and carriage races before the famous "gipsy" horse fair.
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Penrith, Cumbria Pace Egg Ceremony
Easter Monday
Coloured eggs are rolled down a hill
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Scarborough, North Yorks Ringing the Pancake bell and Shrovetide Skiping
Foreshore Bell rung at Georgian Rotunda Museum at 12 noon
Shrove Tuesday
Large skipping ropes are set up across the promenade
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Whitby, North Yorks Fisherman's Rowing regatta
Harbour August Bank Holiday week
Traditional teams of men and women row for prizes
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Goathland, North Yorkshire Plough Stots and sword dancing
The Blessing of the Plough Sevice is on tne first sunday after twelfthnight &if twelfth night is a sunday the service moves to the next sunday, the service is at 10.30am in St Marys Parish Church Goathland.The Day of Dance is the next saturday after the Plough blessing starting at 10.00am from the Reading Room
Unique long sword dancers follow a replica plough which is blessed in the Parish cjhurch
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Kiplingcotes, Nr Market Weighton Kiplingcotes Derby
Stone starting post nr Etton Third Thursday in March around 10:45am
Billed as England's oldest horse race, certainly dates back to 1519
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Scorton, North Yorkshire Scorton Ancient Silver Arrow Contest
May
Archers from all around the country compete for a silver arrow dating back to 1515.
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Spennymore, County Durham Shrovetide Game
Shrove Tuseday
Villages compete with local parishes in a football style game though ball is cricket ball size
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Allendale, Northumberland The Baal Fire Festival
Market place 31st December
Town celebrates end of the old year with a ceremony dating back to pagan times, men carry barrels of blazing tar on their heads to a bonfire in the market place
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Alnwick, Northumberland Shrovetide Football
In front of Alnwick Castle Shrove Tuesday
Football match between the parishes of St Michael & St Paul up to 150 a side, goals with floral decoration
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Hawick, Scotland Common Riding Festival
IF YOU KNOW OF ANY OTHER OR CAN ADD DETAILS LET ME KNOW
THE ORIGINS OF UK FOOTBALL CLUBS
A good way of highlighting the way sport was spread through the country during the rational period is to follow the formation of our current professional football clubs.
Most clubs formed before the start of the century have their origins in one of four areas:
Church
Industry
Old boys (schools)
Other sports ( many cricket - might want to discuss reasons for this)
OLD BOYS:
Blackburn Rovers - Blackburn Grammar school old boys
Blackpool - St John's School Blackpool old boys
Leicester City - Wyggeston School Old boys
Spurs - Old boys of St John's Presbyterian
School Tottenham Grammar
Wimbledon - Central School Old boys
Torquay United - Torquay College Old boys
Northampton Town - Northampton School masters
Norwich City - Norwich School masters
Sunderland - Sunderland & District Teachers Assc.
CHURCH
Aston Vila - Villa Cross Methodist Chapel
Barnsley - St Peters Church, Barnsley
Birmingham City - Trinity Church, Bordesley
Bolton Wanderers - Christ Church Sunday School
Celtic - Brother Walford
Fulham - Fulham St Andrews Sunday School
QPR - St Judes
Southampton - St. Marys, Southampton
Stockport County - Wycliffe Congregational Chapel
Wolves - St Lukes, Wolverhampton
INDUSTRY
Arsenal - Royal Arsenal
Crystal Palace - Staff working at Great Exhibition 1861
Crewe Alex - Railway workers
Coventry City - Singer Bicycle Works
Man Utd - Workers of Yorks & Lancs Railway Co
Meadowbank Thistle - Ferranti factory, Edinburgh
Millwall - Morton & Co. Jam & Marmalade Works
Stoke City - Workers of North Staffs Railway
West Bromwich Albion - Salters Spring Works
West Ham - Thames Ironworks
OTHER SPORT
Burnley - Burnley Rovers Rugby Club
Derby - Derbyshire County Cricket Club
Dunfermline Athletic - Dunfermline Cricket Club
Kilmarnock - Kilmarnock Rugby Club (still play at
Rugby Park)
Kidderminster Town - Kidderminster Athletics Club
Leyton Orient - Glyn Cricket Club
Notts Forest - Nottingham Hockey/shinty Club
Preston North End - Preston NE Rugby & Cricket Club
Plymouth Argyle - Argyle Athletics Club
Rangers - Garelock Rowing Club
St Johnstone - Perth Cricket Club
Scarborough - Scarborough Cricketers FC
Sheffield Utd - Yorkshire County Cricket Club
Sheffield Wednesday - Sheffield Wednesday Cricket Club
Swindon Town - Swindon Cricket Club
IF YOU KNOW OF ANY MORE OR ANY MORE DETAILS PLEASE LET ME KNOW
SOME INTERESTING HISTORICAL FACTS & TERMS
COUNTY - was a Norman word for areas administered by a lord, most sports still use county in their regional adminsitration
SHIRE as in YORKSHIRE - is a Saxon term derived from Scir which described a small region within Anglo-Saxon kingdoms
COMMON LAND - In Medieval times peasants had the right to remove the products of such 'common' land: wood, fish, peat, stones, graze stock and collect frozen fruit
By the C12th Lords of the Manor were claiming direct ownership of common land and by C13th many fenced off common land as part of the enclosure acts.
1/2 DAY HOLIDAYS - Cadbury in Birmingham was one of the first employees to introduce a 51/2 day week in the late 1800's, he also closed his factory on bank holidays and in Bournville built one of the first planned towns in England.
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