LYMM’S historic Rushbearing Sunday may have been cancelled this year – but one of its traditions will continue.
On Sunday, August 14 – the day when the traditional procession through the village streets should have taken place – the Lymm Morris Dance will be performed at three separate locations.
Thelwall Morris Men – dancing as Lymm Morris – will be dancing on the Pepper Street Car Park, at Lymm Cross and at the Church Green pub, then returning to Pepper Street between 4pm and 5.30pm.
The Lymm Morris Dance was revived in the 1970s when its steps were collected from surviving members of the Statham Boys dance team led by Ned Rowles in the 1920s. It is now kept “alive” by the Thelwall Morris Men.
Morris dancing was a regular part of the Rushbearing procession at least as far back as 1903, and probably much earlier.
The Rushbearing ceremony will not take place because of the £1,000 cost of red tape associated with road closures necessary for the procession to take place.
