INFO FOR MORRIS DANCERS

• Drinking
• Travelling to Nottingham
• Staying the night?
• Registration
• Dancing
• Rapper Tour
• Marshals
• NHS Walk-in Centre
• Castle Rock Brewery
• Leaflets

DRINKING

First the important bit!

There are many good pubs around the city centre where you will be made welcome. Under Venues you will see some recomendations. However, please respect the licensing laws.

At those pubs with outside seating areas you can only drink within those areas. The landlords have to enforce these regulations otherwise they have problems with the licensing authority.

Please do not attempt to consume food or drink not purchased from the pub, this is simply good manners.

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TRAVELLING TO NOTTINGHAM

The city is well served by public transport. The railway station and Broad Marsh bus station are close to the city centre and are marked on the map. Car parking is available at the NCP car park next to the Vat and Fiddle (see map) at £2.50 per day but if you are unfamiliar with the city centre you might find it easier to use one of the park and ride schemes. see the link below to the City Council website for more details.

Park and Ride site routes and timetables

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STAYING THE NIGHT

The link below will take you to accommodation options.

Nottingham hotels, B&Bs and tourist information for Nottinghamshire

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REGISTRATION

On arrival please head to the Old Market Square. This will be easy to find as at great expense and with the assistance of the City Council we have erected a big O in the Market Square representing the O of Open Morris.

Alternatively, you could regard it as a Ring emblem and there must surely be a prize for whoever can think of a spurious link to the Federation.

Please register at the Morris Shop in the Market Square, this should be located between the O and the Council House. Registration is from 10am. You will need to collect your Nottingham Revels badges and collecting tin.

There will be a prize of vouchers to spend in the Morris Shop for whichever side collects the most. We need to collect as much as possible to cover the costs of the day, that O was expensive!.

There will be a welcome from the Sheriff of Nottingham at 10.10am at the Council House and it would be good if as many of you as possible could be around for this. After the welcome the dancing will start with the youth sides in the Market Square.

Rapper sides' body clocks are naturally attuned to pub opening hours and so can register 10.30am - 10.45am.

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DANCING

The Morris tours will be at 14 locations around the City Centre.

Each group of sides will have four dance slots of 45 minutes and an hour off for lunch at either 12.30pm or 1.30pm. Over the lunch period the number of venues will shrink to 8.

If everything works to plan each side will dance with different sides throughout the day and at different locations.

Please get to your venue on time and allow yourself enough time to get to the next one. For many of you it's a long way to come to stand around so just get on with the dancing!

At 3.30pm we all meet up in the Old Market Square for the Massed Dancing and this should be finished by 4.30pm.

We will do the following dances from the different traditions:

• North West - Plymouth Reel
• Border - Much Wenlock
• Cotswold - William and Nancy (Bledington)

...and a Rapper Dance yet to be decided.

We might do some more if time allows.

As they will not have had much, if any, chance to dance during the day Lady Bay Revellers will also do a dance.

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RAPPER TOUR

The Rapper Tour will be at various city centre pubs, so please search them out.

You can download the Rapper Tour schedule from HERE or pick one up from the Morris Shop when you register.

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MARSHALS

Marshalling will be provided by local sides familiar with Nottingham. They should be easily identifiable from their nice high visibility waistcoats.

Would marshals please get to their allotted venue early so that visiting sides can see where they should be.

The marshals should be able to direct you to your next venue and suggest the best pub to go to for lunch.

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NHS WALK-IN CENTRE

I am assured each side has their own insurance cover and will provide their own First Aid.

In the event of anything more serious you may visit the NHS walk in centre which is next to the BBC East Midlands (towards the bottom right hand corner on the map).

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CASTLE ROCK BREWERY

Nottingham's largest brewery is supporting the day and you can try their wares at The Lincolnshire Poacher, Kean's Head, News House, Canal House or Vat and Fiddle.

The Lincolnshire Poacher might be a little far for a lunchtime stroll but the others are in easy walking distance (see the map).

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LEAFLETS

With any luck we will obtain permission to hand out leaflets to interested bystanders.

If you see any discarded leaflets please pick them up - Keep Nottingham Tidy!

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