Who are we?
Mucky Mountains Morris are based around St Helens in Merseyside. We dance a mix of a Cotswold and Border Morris and are currently concentrating on Adderbury and Ilmington. We practise every Thursday night (all that practice, but are still nowhere near perfect!), but we do enjoy ourselves immensely, and regularly dance out at local events and pubs. We also join in 'Days of Dance' and folk gatherings all over the North West and further afield!
Perhaps appropriately we are named after a load of rubbish! The Mucky Mountains are in the Earlestown area of St Helens Borough, they were left there by the workers of James Muspratt, who set up Muspratt's Vitriol Works by the canal in the early nineteenth century. The works produced soda, important both for the local glass industry and the Lancashire cotton trade, but to make 1 ton of soda they produced up to 24 tons of noxious waste, this was piled up by the canal to form the locally famous Mucky Mountains.
