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OCTOBER

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After our jaunts around the country during the spring and summer we now find ourselves on home turf with lots of local events this month.

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The first event of the month was dancing at the fund raising event for Wallington Animal Rescue aka WAR a local charity. It was a great day lots of stalls and entertainment and nearly £5000 was raised, well done everyone.

 

 

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 and 2026 is looking good too with invites to both new and favourite events already.

When we're not dancing we are working hard behind the scenes the new practice season is now underway and we are looking forward to welcoming new members to our free open practices. 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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It was dancing and shopping next at the Wallington Farmers Marke. Later in the day it was off to a friends big birthday bash for some dancing and drinking.

 

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​ September started off with a trip to Yorkshire for the Sowerby Bridge Rushbearing, we had a great time at such a well organised and supported event.

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Then we went out as our alter ego Murky Water Morris to bless the river Wandle as part of the Wandle Fortnight with PaganFutureFests performing a pagan blessing.

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Our last event of the month was the Southdowns Folk Festival in Bognor Regis our second visit to this lovely event.

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COMING UP​

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We've had our AGM for 2025 lots of lovely event invitations for 2026 already. It's practice for us now we nearly have our next new dance ready to dance out and are polishing up couple of dances we haven't danced for a while will be revived.

Our next dance out is a London Tour full details will be in our diary soon.

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The Gatherings documentary about some of the weird and wonderful traditions around our Island is now available to watch. MMM have been fortunate to be involved in several of the events in the documentary already and are looking forward to attending more.

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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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Our first new dance for the 2025/2026 season is nearly ready, originally inspired by a creative moment back in May at the Burley Green Man Festival and prompted by an idea from one our newer dancers we now have all the figures, just a bit of tweaking is needed, a little more practice and we should be debuting it soom.  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!

Some of our current dances are available to watch 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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