England Victorian taborers

England: history of the pipe and tabor

Victorian taborers (1830 - 1900)

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Also see:

double pipes

morris dance

pandean pipes

'piper' - Regency and Victorian terminology

street entertainers

'tabber / taberer'

'whittle and dub'

Cecil Sharp, morris pipe and tabor

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1832 Missing taborer Bucks Gazette - Saturday 11 February 1832
1833 in ‘Comic Offering’'Literature of the Day' Durham County Advertiser - Friday 22 November 1833
1847 Death notice for pipe and tabor player: Newcastle Guardian and Tyne Mercury - Saturday 01 May 1847
1849 Player in London Banbury Guardian - Thursday 10 May 1849
1857 ‘A Little Gossip About Christmas’Maidstone Journal and Kentish Advertiser - Saturday 26 December 1857
1862 ‘Exeter Working Men’s Mutual Improvement Society Annual Meeting’Western Times - Saturday 25 January 1862
1863Canterbury Journal, Kentish Times and Farmers' Gazette - Saturday 26 December 1863

Newbury Weekly News and General Advertiser - Thursday 06 October 1870

Mr Lowesley showed part of his antiquarian collection of curiosities to the Field Club, which included a pipe and tabor.

1872 advertisement for an entertainment at Crystal Palace ‘Comical Ballet Extraordinary’ which included “Sports and Pastimes of the 15th century, such as Pipe and Tabor”

Bell's Life in London and Sporting Chronicle - Saturday 13 April 1872

1872 Salisbury and South Wilts Museum – third annual loan collection
‘Mrs Mayo sends a superb pair of figures, the male playing on pipe and tabor the female on the triangle’ 1872 Salisbury and Winchester Journal - Saturday 29 June 1872 [for examples of these figures see here]