This is always worth a visit:

Northwestfolk UK

How do we feel about:

"I recommend that you read Eddie Cass's The Lancashire Pace–Egg Play: a social history (FLS Publications, 2001). Dr Cass finds that the pace (or peace) egg play, featuring such combative characters as St George, Bold Slasher, Hector, Beelzebub and (perhaps most obscurely) The King of Egypt, arose in the county's cotton towns in the 1840s"

Best wishes

L in C