For those not familiar with the hanky waving tradition of Sheffield City Morris - a cotswold style team - the Medup tradition was first discovered during the long hot summer of 1976 when the reservoir was much drier than usual.

There lying in the mud of the Midhope Reservoir photograph here was discovered an old oak chest. There in an old manuscript safely shielded by the watertightness of the oak which had swelled up in the water and also by the oilskin covering, lay the instructions to the various Midhope Dances as performed by Sheffield City Morris. The team practice in Burton St. Centre where the Doc Rowe archive is stored http://www.docrowe.org.uk/index.html
and the original manuscripts are in excellent storage conditions there.

Midhope gradually became Medhope and then Medoap and thus Medup.

Can't see where dialect comes into that. I am most surprised at Malcolm Douglas whose research and respect for the facts is normally exemplary.

Smithy lands at Manchester a week on Friday i.e. April 4th at 7.00 am.It is believed Annie will be going back to work whilst himself will be learning what it is like to be reitred.