Meet the Team

Foreman/Dancer

In a competition with Rob Jukes to see how many sides he can dance for.

Lewis is always on the lookout for a particularly terrible double entendre - the team, to a man, were happy to give him one.

Bagman/Dancer

All round decent bloke, mainly because he agreed to be bagman.

Sartorial advisor, chess enthusiast, alpine hat wearer and occasional owner of a luxurious moustache.

Fiddler/Dancer.

Keeper of the knowledge of all things folk and morris. Fiddler of some enviable ability, collector of tunes, eater of radishes.

Makes our bell pads - or “joffords” as we call them.

Dancer

Special adviser to the bagman and Legal Eagle.

Leader of the Blackheath Urban Men’s Singers (BUMS) where his basso profundo is much noted.

Dancer/Musician

(melodeon, fiddle, guitar, bloody anything frankly) hyperactive and swoonworthy younger member. Also in bands. Annoyingly talented . This is Joel Gilbert’s fault.

Dancer

One of the Hunter-Lawes of Hartfordshire.

Absurdist poet, badge maker and collector of arcane Metal bands with names like Deathgoblin.

All round good egg, and coneptual genius.

Dancer/Musician

Reformed Character. Holds the course and distance for falling down the escalator at Bank Tube Station.

Melodeon

Blackheath are a men’s Morris side, but we do have a female musician. Jill provides us with perfectly bouncy and energetic music.

She quite literally keeps us on our toes.

Dancer

A traveller in Time and Space (Largely between London and Hastings on Thursday nights)

Appointed the first Team Scapegoat by popular acclamation. A postion he held with some reliability until his unseating at the last AGM.

Dancer/Scapegoat

Occupation - Demolition.

Hates anything modern.

He thinks a computer is just a typewriter with a TV on top, and smartphones are the work of the devil.

He may have a point - but it would be a first.

Voted Team Scapegoat November 2023

Dancer/The King of Morris.

Perma-smiling golden ray of sunshine.

His more wayward movements have been recorded by scholars and are destined to be included in future morris dances. “At this point we insert the Colin manouevre” many a teacher will exclaim.

Annointed “King of Morris” at an AGM for reasons no-one can remember.

Melodeon/Dancer

Owner of an improbably cool name.

Ironically an extremely cautious driver.

Dancer/Treasurer

Enthusiastic prop forward. Took on the banking as he was the only one left who understood it.

It goes without saying that this is Joel Gilbert’s fault.

Dancer

Proud innovator of the clingfilm wrapped morris dancer for wet weather appearances.

Dancer

Saw Blackheath Morris and wisely/insanely thought “These are my people” and brought with him a level of computer expertise previously unseen in the team -the rest of us are all just various shades of “Ken” in comparison.

Dancer

Formerly accomplished dancer with the wonderful, but sadly mothballed Wadard Morris, and welcomed into Blackheath with open arms.

Has requisite beard (sometimes)

Occasionally baffled by the more recondite ways of Blackheath - but frankly who isn’t?

Dancer

Brixton Agent.

Our previous Squire.

He is the Doctor, good and bold.

He’ll cure this man if he’s not too cold.

Dancer/Musician

Another exiled Northerner.

Specialises in the experimental “Sanderson Calling Technique” where he visualises a move and relies on the team’s ESP to respond to it.. Then calls it 10 seconds after the move has finished.

Dancer

He used to keep Britain’s fleet afloat.

Now he’s progressed to being a student.

God help us if there’s a war…

Dancer

Occupation - Ex Blue Peter pet.

Joined Blackheath Morris after a falling out with Valerie Simpleton.

Melodeon/ Dancer

Wild-haired and wild-bearded Scot.

An enthusiastic plugger-inner of high voltage electrical things.

Concertina

Following in his father’s footsteps (Bill Dudley played for Blackheath decades ago) Billy is learning our tunes with gusto.

Prefers to sit down when playing, but we won’t let him.. We’re like that.

Admit it, you want to join don’t you?

You want to bash sticks and wave hankies around, don’t you?

You want to hang around with all these lunatics don’t you?

Contact us and have a go!

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Dancer/Magician

South Coast Agent

Much loved former Squire and Foreman.

Occupation - Magician

Best trick - Walking down the road and turning into a pub.

Dancer

Midlands Agent

Joined just before the pandemic, then with disastrous timing, moved away when we came back.

Joel Gilbert’s fault, all of it.

Dancer

North of England Agent

Another former Squire/top chap tempted away by the delights of the frozen North.

Will rejoin us if we’ve signed the correct petitions, and spent a month occupying a motorway or something.

Appointed Team Scapegoat in his absence at the last AGM. This act was the last thing that was Jon Slater’s fault.

Dancer

South Coast Agent

Retired to Bognor Regis to sell “antiques”.

Will do a jig at the drop of a hat (and very considerately giving the rest of us a chance to get a pint)

Melodeon

North of England/Swedish Agent

Master of the one-row squeezebox

Has a habit of moving to towns with very good morris sides, despite insisting this is a pure coincidence. Yeah, right…

Dancer/Melodeon

Midlands Agent

Dancer with the superb (and not entirely dissimilar) Anstey Morris Men. Willing to exchange his waistcoat for appropriate liquid renumeration.

Dancer/Pipe and Tabor

North of England Agent

Happy to hold forth on such topics as bagpipe seasoning, the fermentation of pears and alternative ways of folding hankies, Neil is a fount of arcane knowledge, as well a master of v. trad morris accompaniment.