The British Library The British Library George Ling interview, part 01 C1002X0078XX-87 1CDR0010647 (copy of C1002/78) Item notes: Same session as the one on C1002/29. Interviewee notes: Of the Ling family of Blaxhall, Suffolk sound English folk songs and music (Suffolk); Interview Part 1 – George Ling talks about the Ling family, singing in the family, Grandfather’s dancing dolls, the dancing doll ditty ‘God bless your heart when your legs fly up’. John Thurston (Aunt Eddie’s father) played concertina. Fiddle players, ‘Spanker’ Austin and Obediah Taylor the Gypsy. The local Gypsy families, Smiths, Taylors, Picketts, Becketts. Joe Beckett the boxer. Lord Ullswater getting up a petition to get the Gypsies off the heath, as soon as he was successful he hired out the heath for shoots, which prevented the villagers using it. Making pegs from willows with the Gypsys, used to be about two to three hundred caravans in the area. Ling, George (speaker, male) Summers, Keith (speaker, male) Summers, Keith 1971-04-24 Croydon, London, England, UK Keith Summers Collection 44100 16 00:09:20 44100 16 00:09:20 44100 16 192 kbps 00:09:20 44100 16 128 kbps