“It is a play that dates from the time of Downton Abbey, when the villagers would do a little play around Christmastime and go around the big houses and collect money for a few drinks, get mince pies and things like that,” he said.<\/p>\n
The mummers dress in disguises before touring pubs performing a play that represents the coming of the new year and singing folk songs.<\/p>\n
“At the time they used to sew ribbons on to their jackets or turn them inside out,” said Mr Carter.<\/p>\n
“My wife made mine in about 1979, when I first started. She cut up old dresses and sewed them to an old storeman’s coat and it’s a costume and a disguise.<\/p>\n
“We have a hat, which also has ribbons stuck on it, and it all created a mystery for when the play starts,” he said.<\/p>\n
Traditionally the groups would have used coal dust on their faces to hide their identity, but this has now been replaced with face paint.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"“It is a play that dates from the time of Downton Abbey, when the villagers would do a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":671843,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[77,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-671842","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-uk","10":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115833003472782415","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=671842"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671842\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/671843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=671842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=671842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=671842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}