Where Waits?
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Section 1: The British Isles
Section 2: Other Countries
1: A list of towns and cities in the British Isles known to have employed their own Waits or Town Pipers
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Aberdeen Alnwick Anstruther Appleby Arbroath Ashbourne Ashby de la Zouch Askrigg Ayr Banff Barnard Castle Barnstaple Barton-upon-Humber Barwick-in-Elmet Bath Belford (Northumberland) Bellingham Berwick-upon-Tweed Beverley Bewdley Bewley Biggar Blyth Bodmin Boston Bradford Brechin Bridgeton Bridgnorth Bristol Bungay Bury St Edmund Burton-on-Trent Calais Cambridge Canterbury Carlisle Castlebar Chester Chesterfield Cockermouth Colchester Cork Coventry Crail Dalkeith Darlington Darneton Dartford Daventry Derby Doncaster Dover Dublin Dumfries Dumbarton Dundee |
Dunfermline Dunstable Durham Dysart Eaglesham Edinburgh Elland Ellerton Exeter Fakenham Falkirk Faversham Galashiels Girvan Glasgow Glenluce Gloucester Grantham Grimsby Haddington Hadleigh Halifax Haverfordwest Hawick Hereford Hertford Hexham Honiton Hull Huntingdon Inverness Ipswich Irvine Islington Jedburgh Keith Kelso Kendal Keswick Kilbarchan Kilkenny King's Lynn Kingston-upon-Hull Kirkby Lonsdale Kirkby Steven Kirkby Thore Kirkudbright Kirkwall Knaresborough Lanark Lancaster Lauder Leeds Leek Leicester Lichfield Lincoln |
Linlithgow Liverpool London: City of London Blackfriars Finsbury Hackney Southwark St. George's St Giles St. Pancras Tower Hamlets Westminster Loughborough Louth Ludlow Lydd Maidenhead Maidstone Malton Manchester Marlborough Marshfield Maxfield meltonMowbray Midlam/Middleham Millom Montrose Morpeth Musselburgh New Romney Newark Newcastle-under-Lyme Newcastle-upon-Tyne Newmarket North Berwick North Shields Northampton Norwich Nottingham Orton Oxford Peebles Penrith Perth Plymouth Pocklington Pontefract Preston Reading Retford Richmond Ripley Ripon Rochester Rotherham Ruthin |
St Eedes (St Ives?) Salford Salisbury Sandwich Scarborough Selkirk Sheffield Shrewsbury Skipton Southam Southampton St Albans St Andrews Stamford Stirling Stockton Stone Stony Stratford Sudbrooke (Lincolnshire) Sunderland Swaffham Thetford Thirsk Towcester Uttoxeter Wakefield Walberswick Warrington Welby Wells Westchester Whickham Whitehaven Wigan Wigton Winchester Worcester Workington Worksop Wymondham Yarmouth York City of York Skeldergate |
3 December 2009
In Mark Brayshay's 2005 tome on "Waits, musicians, bearwards and players", he finds us four new sets of waits:
The Waits of Belford (Northumberland?), Sudbrooke (Lincs.) and Melton Mowbray are documented as playing in Nottingham. The Waits of Marshfield (his map shows the one near Chippenham, but I suspect it's more likely to be the one near Solihull) played at Coventry. So how many does that make now?
Regards,
Alan Radford, Leeds.
15 July 2010
A couple of new London groups are identified on the
www.worldmilitarybands.com website, from their surviving badges (circa 1800) bringing to nine the number of identified groups in London:
St. George's
St. Pancras
The former parish is in the City of London, just west of the Tower, where the Parish Church (now demolished) stood on Botolph Lane. St Pancras needs no explanation.
Alan Radford, Leeds.
2: Waites in Mainland Europe and Further Afield
Where Stadtpfeifers, Stadspijpers, Piffari and Ministrils?
Below is a list of towns and cities with stadtpfeifers, mainly in Germany, but also in the Netherlands, Belgium, Austria, the Czech Republic, Italy, France, Spain and Switzerland.
Sources:
Barbara Haggh's article in Early Music (August 1989);
http://sscm-jscm.press.illinois.edu/v8/no1/kurtzman_i.html
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Austria Graz Belgium Antwerp Brussels Leuven Czech Republic Prague France Avignon Montpellier Toulouse |
Germany Aachen Aalen Amberg Andernach Aslen Augsburg Bamberg Bocholt Borken Braunschweig Bremen Breslau Büren Butzbach Calbe an der Saale Coesveld Colmar Cologne Danzig Dinkelsbuhl Dönauworth Dortmund Duisburg Dülmen Eger Eisenach Erfurt Essen Frankfurt am Main Freiburg im Breigau Görlitz Goslar Gottingen Halle Hamburg Hamm Hannover Heilbronn Herford Hildesheim Ingolstad Kempten Konstanz Landsberg Landshut Leipzig Lippstadt Lübeck Lüneburg Magdeburg Memmingen Metz Muhldorf Mühlhausen Munich |
Münster Neumarkt Neuss Nördlingen Nuremburg Oberwesel Osnabruck Passau Plauen Ravensburg Regensburg Reutlingen Rostock Rothenberg Salzburg Schaffhausen Soest Speyer Stade Stadthagen Strasbourg Straubing Überlingen Ulm Wesel Wimpfen Windsheim Wismar Worms Zofingen Zwickau |
Italy Arezzo Bergamo Bologna Brescia Cremona Ferrara Florence Genoa Lodi Lucca Mantua Milan Naples Padua Parma Perugia Pesaro Pisa Rome San Gimignano Siena Udine Verona Netherlands Amersfoort Amsterdam Deventer Groningen Kampen Maastricht Nijmegen Roermond 's-Hertogenbosch Utrecht Zutphen Zwolle Spain Gandia Mallorca Valladolid Switzerland Basel Bern Biel Burgdorf Freiburg im Uechtland Luzern Zurich |
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All the towns and cities in this list employed their own Waits.
Total so far: 197.
To quote Tom Lehrer, "There may be many others, but they haven't been discovered!" If you can add to this list, please email us: Al Garrod