Street Pace Egg Team from Lowerplace, Rochdale. [leisure trust, arts heritage, sports centres, fitness health, rochdale, link4life, entertainment, Rochdale Boroughwide Cultural Trust, museum, middleton arena, gallery, touchstones, local studies, central, bowlee, springhill, marland, heywood, littleborough,]
Boys Pace Egg Steet Team, Sandfield area, Rochdale (c.1900)
Street Pace Egg Team from Lowerplace, Rochdale.
On Saturday 4th August, 1956, the Rochdale Observer published the following photograph and article.
Rochdale Pace Egg Group of Over Sixty Years Ago.
We are indebted to Mrs Kenyon of Laycock Crescent, Failsworth , for sending us the above photograph of a Rochdale Pace Egg group of over sixty years ago.
All the members of the group lived in the vicinity of Prince Street and Royds Street, Lowerplace. The names of the participants in the Easter play and the characters they portrayed are as follows: Dirty Bet (Ernest Rollins), Doctor (Joe Knight), Slasher (Joe Fogg), Black Prince (Arthur Greenhalgh), St George (Clifford Ashton), and Hector (Bob Lyons).
Mrs Kenyon states that her brother, Ernest Rollins, who played the part of Dirty Bet, died when he was 24 years of age. He was a chorister at St Mary's Church, Balderstone, when the late Mr S Klinton Shepherd was the choirmaster.
Bibliography
Copies of John Trafford Clegg's book, the Pace Egg Chap Book and other information, can be seen in Rochdale Local Studies Library.
