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The Long Company Mummers are a long-established team of players who delight audiences with their traditional play on only four nights in early January every year, ending on Twelfth Night (6 January). The play itself is an amalgam of traditional texts which have been selected by each player to be the best representation of their character. The characters are King Christmas, St George, The Prince of Paradine, Common Jack, The Doctor and Beelzebub. Supported by a band of musicians, the players arrive from the dark, deliver their seasonal play by lantern light, and disappear back into the night.

The Long Company Mummers are a long-established team of players who delight audiences with their traditional play on only four nights in early January every year, ending on Twelfth Night (6 January). The play itself is an amalgam of traditional texts which have been selected by each player to be the best representation of their character. The characters are King Christmas, St George, The Prince of Paradine, Common Jack, The Doctor and Beelzebub. Supported by a band of musicians, the players arrive from the dark, deliver their seasonal play by lantern light, and disappear back into the night.

The Abbots Bromley Horn Dance is performed around the village on the monday following the first sunday after the fourth of September - phew! Today this ancient tradition, it is the oldest dance tradition in England, was blessed with sunshine and a fair bit of wind. The reindeer antlers that the dancers carry have been carbon dated to around 1065! Here the dancers are performing along the road into the village and holding up lots of traffic. :-)