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WELCOME

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2025/2026 Practice dates are now in our Diary

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 As you can see from the photos we're having great fun, 2025 has  been a busy and varied year so far. When we're not dancing we are working hard behind the scenes preparing for the new practice season begining again in the Autumn when we will be looking forward to welcoming new members for 2025/2026. If you would like to join us or find out more check out our recruitment details on our Join Us page do contact us with any questions.

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SEPTEMBER

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September started of with another trip to West Yorkshire for the Sowerby Bridge Rushbearing a two day event. What an amazing event so well organised and well supported by the local communities. We got to dance in some lovely locations we wouldn't have otherwise visited and had an opportunity to pull the cart too. Definately an event we will look at attending again in the future

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​The next September event was as our alter ego Murky Water Morris. MWM along with our friends PaganFutureFests blessed the Wandle in Beddington Park and at Carshalton Ponds as part of the Wandle Fortnight. 

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AUGUST

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Our last event of August  was our first trip to Cornwall as guests of Wreckers Border Morris at their 25th Anniversary event in Cawsand. Despite getting a tad wet we had a great time thanks to a very well organised day by hosts.

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The first event of August  was our second visit to the Wickham 

We are very excited and pleased to announce we are already on the list for next year.

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We were much closer to home when we danced at the Wallington Farmers Market in the morning. Then off to Balham in the afternoon where we had not one but two Birthday dances. 

Not many photos as we were all dancing.

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COMING UP​

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The next event for us is supporting a wonderful local charity Wallington Animal Rescue aka WAR on Sunday 5th October we will be dancing at the event in the afternoon by the CryerArts Theatre.

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 Less than a week now until the release of Gatherings a documentary about all the weird and wonderful traditions around our Island, MMM have been fortunate to be involved in several already and are looking forward to attending more.

Check it out on the link below

 

THE GATHERINGS 

 

 

 

 

Check our diary for the rest of the years events.

 

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WHAT'S HAPPENING

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We have now debuted our new dance Wotcha now a firm favourite in our repetoire, now it's time to look at a new broom dance, we have ideas for figures and our talented musicians are working on the tune​ so watch this space. We also have another special 'Winter' dance that's almost ready to get off of the ground, no need to worry about music for this one!

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Our new dance along with others have now been put up on our YouTube chanel.

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The link is available on our media page​

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RECRUITMENT

 

 

If you are interested in Molly dancing and would like to  come along and have a try please contact us for details.

Enquiries are welcome from both musicians and dancers (no previous dance experience necessary).

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Check out our dairy to see some of the events we already have booked in for 2025

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PLEASE CHECK OUR DIARY FOR UP AND COMING EVENTS

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​We are still taking booking for 2025 although availability is becoming limited and our 2026 calendar is starting to fill up.

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Why start a Molly team?

 

While out at an event (dancing a different style of Morris) we saw a Molly team dancing, fell in love with the style and became eager to learn it. The Molly tradition has its origins in East Anglia/The Fens and although there are many teams in these areas, when we started looking we found that in the South/South East there are very few teams. These turned out to be not mixed teams, too far away for us to join or have remained true to the Molly tradition of dancing for only a few weeks during the winter (originally the ploughboys danced to earn money in the winter months).

 

With no local team to join, we finally realised the only way forward was to create our own team. We wanted to start a mixed gender team that would dance throughout the year. With this in mind we decided, like the more modern East Anglia Molly teams, not to keep to the custom of just dancing in the winter until Plough Monday.

 

 

Why Madder Mill?

 

We live, and practice, in the vicinity of the River Wandle, so we decided that a team name associated with the river would be appropriate. After much research we discovered that in 1790 there was a madder and snuff mill on our part of the river. We didn’t much fancy the ‘snuff’ part given the modern connotations of the name, but the madder and mill parts went well with the word Molly. As a bonus, the madder root was used to make red dye, so this made choosing a team colour really easy.

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