
Morris dancing from Shropshire
Next Event
Much Wenlock Christmas Fayre
Saturday 2nd December
Dancing at
1.15-2.00pm and 2.45-3.30pm
See our page
for other events.
Want to try Morris dancing?
We practise on Mondays, between 8pm to 10pm at
The Telford Langley School
Dawley
TF4 3JS
Come and join us anytime
The Ironmen & Severn Gilders come from Ironbridge in Shropshire, England.
We are a joint team that perform two distinct traditions of dancing and some joint dances just to show that we can!
The Ironmen are one of the original
'revival' Border morris teams.
Border Morris is a traditional style that originates along the English/Welsh border (Shropshire, Herefordshire and Worcestershire) and involves lots of noise,
stick clashing and energy.
Faces are disguised in the Ironmen's case with a mixture of black and red to
echo the kit, which reminds us that the early border dancing was
basically begging when work was scarce, or busking as we have it today.
The ladies team, The Severn Gilders,
were named after the female workers at the Coalport China Factory [Coalport is just downstream from Ironbridge] - the Gilders - who put the gold decoration on the porcelain.
For both teams the kit colours of red and black are a tribute to the Ironbridge Gorge, the real birthplace of the industrial revolution, where the cokefires from the iron works coloured the sky. The yellow highlights hint at the gold on the Coalport ceramics.
Both border and North West morris are often accompanied by a lively band. IMSG are no different having, when everyone is available, one of the most distinctive morris band sounds in the country!




