Michael Fowell, aged 13, has put together a new website and a photo gallery of the Abbots Bromley Horn Dance in his home village in Staffordshire. Down at the bottom of the gallery he has five fine pictures from 2007, that (once saved locally) reveal themselves to be at 2576 x 1952 pixels…
He writes on the site…
“..in the 1970’s one of the white horns was damaged and whilst away for repair it was radio carbon dated, this showed the horns were over a thousand years old”.
Stoke-on-Trent documentary and press photographer Martin Shakeshaft has an excellent Flash slideshow of the event, with integrated recent audio interviews…
Below is an 1899 photograph of four horn dancers, by Birmingham
Peter Barker also has good Flickr sets from 2005 and from 2006. The next annual set of dances is in September 08, sure to be covered by Shakeshaft, Doc Rowe and many others.
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