New Forest Mummers
Author: Nfknowledge
New Forest Mummers have been keeping the folk tradition of mumming alive in the New Forest every Christmas for the past 54 years, always collecting money for different charities in the area. The plays follow a pattern and usually consist of a duel where one of them is killed but later, miraculously revived by a Doctor. All is overseen by Old Father Christmas.
Mummers at the Balmer Lawn Hotel in Brockenhurst in 1983
Image from ‘A New Forest Christmas’ Georgina Babey, 2000: https://nfknowledge.org/record/nfc-160750/