Les, there are about half a dozen collected Molly dances, though some of those (e.g. described in Papworth's book) are "feast" dances which were also done at other times of the year by people who weren't molly dancers. The other main publication based on collected material is by Needham and Peck.

The collected dances are very simple, repetitive and get a bit boring after a while. That's why the revival teams have only used them as a starting point and developed their own, more elaborate dances.

Molly dancing is quite likely to have been a rather approximate and made-up tradition at the best of times - the dances were basically parodies of social dances. Unlike Cotswold Morris, there is no canon of respected and lovingly preserved tradition; nobody can really say you're doing it wrong.

It is mainly an East Anglian thing, though the "Molly" name also comes up in connection with a dance form from Derbyshire. I've always associated it with the Cambridgshire Fens. Old Glory Molly who are based in East Suffolk and formed in 1994 ago seem to think it was done in Suffolk too, but I don't know what evidence they rely on for that.

Interestingly, The Old Glory dances are not written down: they are passed on by word of mouth and demonstration at practices. We only dance in the winter and the practice season starts in October. If we can't remember some detail of how to do a dance, I guess we'll invent something and that will be how we do it that year.

Old Glory don't have bright colours. Women (musicians) all in black, men (dancers) in brown corduroy trousers, waistcoats and preferably hob nail boots. The "tweedy" molly dancers Eliza saw at Whittlesey could have been Old Glory or Mepal - the idea is to look a bit like 19th Century ploughboys, I suppose.