Team Costumes at the Bristol Ring Meeting
Who’s who?
White trousers, straw hats. Chanctonbury Ring Morris Men (Sussex)– green and red baldrics, badge with Chanctonbury ring of trees; Dolphin MM (Nottingham) – red and green baldrics with dolphin badge; Jockey MM (Birmingham)– blue baldrics with green yellow and red rosettes; Ripley MM (Derbyshire) – green and yellow baldrics with a white unicorn badge (coat of arms of Ripley Town Council); Rutland MM – green and gold baldrics; Uttoxeter Heart of Oak MM (Staffordshire) – gold and blue baldrics with a heart, acorn and oak leaves at the centre.
White trousers, no hats. Chalice Morris Men (Weston super Mare) – red baldrics with a blue stripe, chalice on badge; Northwood MM (Surrey) – Green and yellow baldrics and arm bands, green waistcoat
Black breeches, straw hats. Bristol Morris Men – red and black baldrics with seal of the city of Bristol on front, red waistcoats with arms of the city of Bristol on back; Green Man Morris and Sword Club (Sutton Coldfield) – Green tabard with ‘green man’ head; Mersey MM – blue and gold baldrics with Liver bird and Wirral horn badge, blue cummerbund; Shakespeare MM (Stratford on Avon) – yellow and black baldrics with red trim, Shakespeare shield on front; Standon Morris Men (Herfordshire) – green baldrics with yellow trim, black eagle on front rosettes, rush hat; Thelwall MM (Cheshire) – pale blue and claret baldrics wih badge of a wall of thells or stakes.
Black breeches, top hats. Faithful City Morris Men – blue tabard with black pears of Worcester City on front, and black pear tree, the River Severn and Malvern Hills on back.
Black breeches, no hats. Wadard Morris Men (Kent) – maroon, green and gold baldrics, badge with Wadard on horseback in the centre; Wyvern Jubilee MM (Sherborne, Dorset) – red, white and blue baldrics, central rosette depicting a crown, 1977 and ‘the Queen’s Silver Jubilee’, red waistcoats; West Somerset MM – dark green baldrics with yellow and purple braid with stag’s head badge.
Baldrics are the ribbons that cross over the chest.