1964: MUMMERS are PLANNING MY WEDDING | Six Ten | Weird & Wonderful | BBC Archive

[@grbadalamenti]

Honeymooning in Blackpool...now that's a treat

[@Tim.Weaver]

This could almost have been a scene from "The Wicker Man"🔥

[@johnhudson9167]

The locals in their village doing all the mad wicker man stuff must have seemed very civilised and normal, if the happy couple spent their previous week in Blackpool.

[@robinvanags912]

Fascinating - and fortunate to have this preserved for us to see.

[@markeyhendrix]

Perfectly normal behaviour in a crazy world

[@brianbrino4310]

Excellent tradition to add to my knowledge!

[@OlafProt]

We have a random book about these fellas in my work!! It’s quite wonderfully pagan and/or celt, and brilliantly alien to us now, so a bit unsettling. None of that auld safe comfortable Presbyterianism for these lads.

[@northernsnow6982]

The 12 days of Christmas mummers of Newfoundland, were way more fun. Dressing up, often cross-dressing and disguising their voices; until the host guessed who they were, and offered food and drinks.Then off to the next house.

[@mountaincraftsstudio]

That’s what I thought.

[@Wotsitorlabart]

​​@@mountaincraftsstudio I believe these are 'Strawboys' rather than 'Mummers'. The dressing up and the disguised voices was a feature of 'mummers' and 'guisers' in England in the 19th century. I imagine that's where the Newfoundland 'mummering' custom originates from.

[@cyankirkpatrick5194]

So this is what Lorena McK was singing about

[@spencernasey6662]

Yes Mummers were pagan bringers of the Spring on Beltane Mayday. Fertility rites

[@jaculton2641]

Sad. Captain Saunderson murdered in school 10 years later.

[@lylobean]

Lt. Col.

[@lezbriddon]

when was the wedding?

[@northernsnow6982]

Before the reception.

[@steveosshenanigans]

Seems like an April fools joke to me 😊

[@associatedblacksheepandmisfits]

Skeklers

[@williamscott2703]

Surely,april,fools

[@IAmSoMuchBetterThanYou]

Sumer is icumen in

[@heraldeventsandfilms5970]

The evil Ford Anglia at 3.19, its evil mouth turned downwards. Aaaargh!

[@IAmSoMuchBetterThanYou]

Well spotted.

[@heraldeventsandfilms5970]

@@IAmSoMuchBetterThanYou I have owned two of them and have an armchair made from one.