Description:Siemens Morris Dancers pictured with First Prize certificates for Stafford Infirmary Pageant 1st and 2nd July 1922. Their badges read 'E.E.C.' (English Electric Company) and 'S.W.W.C.' (Siemens Works Welfare Committee). The Siemens Morris Dancers reformed in the early 1920s having been extant until the outbreak of the First World War in 1914.
Back row (left to right): Burns, Jones, Bailey, Shelley, Tyson, Kelling, Simpson, Miles.
Middle row: Spilsbury, Glover, Carrol, Moss, Shalman, Dyke, Perry, Newell Jnr.
Front row: unknown, unknown, Newell Sr, L.G. Shelley (director of the dancers), Francis Edward Read (Welfare Master), Varley, unknown, unknown.
Siemens Morris Dancers eventually became Stafford Morris, led by Lance Shelley, up until 1939. The dance was noted by morris historian Roger Marriott and probably originally came from Betley or thereabouts in north-west Staffordshire. This was more like the Cheshire morris, unlike the earlier Stafford morris and the post-World War II English Electric and subsequent (current, from 1957) Stafford Morris.
Photographer: C.E. Fowke