Bury Pace Eggers

Where: Bury, Lancs and environs -check Facebook link for schedule
When: Usually Palm Sunday weekend (and sometimes Good Friday)
Time: Usually From Noon on Sunday (and Friday 1pm to 4.30pm approx if performing that day).

 

Swordfight

The Bury Pace Eggers are a team of mummers who perform in the Easter season every year around their home town. Pace Egging Plays are traditional mumming plays with their own unique character and are performed during Eastertide, mainly in the north-western corner of England. They are typically brief hero-combat plays with fight scenes and the revival of one protagonist by a doctor but also have some unique songs and characters like Tosspot who don’t appear anywhere else. The name comes from the players or their attendants in past years begging for eggs for the Easter season.The Bury team follow a route based around local hostelries performing their traditional Pace Egg play with all the associated characters including St George, the Doctor, Beelzebub and the Fool, and Big Head who performs a clog dance. Spoiler alert: St George fights Slasher the Turkish Knight, who is slain and miraculously revived by the Doctor and a good time is had by all!

Helpful Hints

In 2025 they should be out on Palm Sunday, 13th April (check the link below for updates).  The group also perform at occasional local events at other times- check their Facebook link below for details.

2025 schedule is:

12:45 Hamers Arms, Higher Summerseat, Summerseat, BL0 9UG
13:00 Footballers, Higher Summerseat, Summerseat, BL0 9UG
13:30 Waggon & Horses, Bolton Rd, Hawkshaw, BL8 4JL
13:55 Rose & Crown, 41-43 Bury Road, Edgworth BL7 0AR
14:15 White Horse, Bury Road, Edgworth, BL7 0AY
14:30 The Barlow , Bolton Rd, Edgworth, BL7 0AP
15:20 White Horse, Hall St, Walshaw, BL8 3BD
15:40 Dungeon, Turton Rd, Tottington, BL8 4AW
16:00 Lamb Inn, 533 Tottington Rd, Woolfold, BL8 1UB
16:15 Waggonmakers, 336 Tottington Road Woolford, BL8 1TA

Check the Pace Eggers’ own page for a complete schedule with all timings and locations and for any last-minute updates (see links below).

Click here for the event Facebook page : https://www.facebook.com/burypaceeggers/

and https://www.facebook.com/groups/burypaceeggers/




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