History

 

We were created from a local scout group in 1975, over thirty years ago. We are easily recognised by our white shirts and trousers, green waistcoats, and yellow and green baldricks. Our baldricks bear a badge that has the image of an acorn to celebrate the Great North Wood, that was a oak forest that grew around Croydon, south of Norwood.

We feature in the "Scene Unseen: Unpacking the Art of Croydon" exhibition which is open Mondays to Saturdays, from 11am to 5pm until the first of May 2010 at the Museum of Croydon Exhibition Gallery, Croydon Clocktower, Katharine Street, Croydon CR9 1ET. See www.museumofcroydon.com

We perform dances collected a hundred years ago by Cecil Sharp from the Cotswolds and others developed later. The different styles are named after the names of the villages and towns where the dances were collected and include, Bampton, Bledington and Fieldtown. We have dances from other remarkable sources like Addington Quarry and more recently from Brockley found during a refurbishment at a local pub called The Brockley Barge.

See more at www.northwoodmorris.org.uk