This was the first dance I saw at Primary school although I didn't know what it was at the time. I just remember seeing the older pupils dancing round in a big circle holding a handkerchief in each hand to music from a 78rpm record during an afternoon of folk dancing on the playground. It was only later that I realised that the dance I had seen was the Abram Morris dance. Years later when I got married I moved to Lancashire and found myself living in Platt Bridge, which borders Abram and became the person responsible for the dance being once again performed in its traditional setting after a break of some eighty years!
In 2007, on one of the wettest days of dance since 1984, the event was filmed by Tradition Films who had been commissioned to produce a DVD about heritage in Wigan. The section about the dance was one of 12 films which made up the finished DVD which was finally published in September 2011.
There's a lot more information about the revival which I've put on the team website which I won't duplicate here. I'm also putting together an online collection of archival material going back to the earliest records of the dance.
See www.abram-morris-dancers.org.uk and www.abram-morris-dancers.org.uk/archives to find out more.