Burton, pp 68-79

Book Sections:

• Introduction
• Manchester: Alexander Wilson's 1821 picture
• Rochdale
• Scanned image section for pages 68 to 79
• Saddleworth: Burton's eye-witness account
• Skedlock: The children's rush-cart
• Morris: Other morris dance troupes
• Rushes: Other rush customs
• Pictures: 'Photos and Illustrations
• Back to NW Morris

• 68:link Burton complains that Hone's woodcut {Hone, The year Book, Sept 18, report from Rochdale, May 1825} is poor and that it bears little resemblance to the sketches originally provided - these are shown on the right of our page.
• 69:link "... staves attached to ropes for the men to draw by ..."
• 70:link Side and back views of an 1824 cart. Enlarged view of top figure on right.
• 71:link Rochdale 1820, "... dissipated scenes which were witnessed on the Sunday ... "
• 72:link Sketch of the general appearance of a banner. Enlarged view of figure on left.
• 73:link Rochdale 1868, no carts turned up, a prize the next year brought out 20 carts.
• 74:link Plan of a rushcart. Enlarged view of lower picture on right.
• 75:link "The custom of rush-bearing was not so elaborately nor so enthusiastically observed in Cheshire as in Lancashire ..."
• 76:link "At Christleton Rush-bearing in July 1810, one of the principal attractions was a bull-bait"
• 77:link "At Forest Chapel, near Macclesfield, the little church is usually crowded on the rush-bearing Sunday."
• 78:link "In Derbyshire the rush-bearing clung to the villages in the High Peak till a late period ..."
• 79:link "The parish of Saddleworth..." See the next section