Lancashire Wallopers at the Albert Hall

The Lancashire Wallopers were formed not long before their appearance at the EFDSS Albert Hall Festival in 1984, originally to perform a social dance, The Irish Jig, collected from Mr. Bill Gibbons.

The dance is of quadrille format and was danced socially in the cottages of canal workers in Lancashire.  The figures are not danced in any set order.

Appropriately the team wear costumes derived from those work by canal workers at the turn of the century.

The dancers were George Rowe, Alan Whittaker, Chas Fraser, Harry Cowgill, Melanie Barber, Evelyn Cowell, Anne Parkinson and Madelaine Hollis.  David Smith and Christine Daniels were in Wallop, the pantomime horse which was led on by Bill Gibbons carrying a bucket!  Musicians were Nigel Whittaker, Chris Parkinsona dn John Hollis.