The British Library The British Library http://sounds.bl.uk/JISC ASR IPR STATUS LIST.xls Mrs Louie Norman interview, part 02 1CDR0011431 (copy of C1033/136) Bob and Jacqueline Patten Collection Mrs Louisa Norman talks about the local mummers who came from Bower Hinton near Martock. Arrived at 10.00 in the evening and would go to the pub, spend the night singing, dancing and drinking and go home over Pitway Hill ‘drunk as ever you could have it and they’d all be dressed up in fancy costumes y’know, all dressed up beautiful they was’. Didn’t go round the house. Blacked themselves up and played accordion. Didn’t do a play. Carolling as a child. About twenty of them would go round on Christmas day. Mr Martin the schoolteacher would invite them in for a ‘Christmas box’ and then present them with an empty cardboard box, they’d throw it back at him. But Captain Baker ‘he was a real lady in judgement’ [?] who would always have a toy, an apple and an orange for every child in South Petherton ‘that used to like to go and fetch it. Oh that was beautiful, we used to love to go up to see Captain Baker’. No special carols in South Petherton. 1983-02-16 Ilminster, Somerset, England, UK English sound Norman, Mrs Louisa, 1905- (speaker, female) Patten, Bob (speaker, male) Patten, Jacqueline (speaker, female) Patten, Bob Patten, Jacqueline 44100 16 00:04:20 44100 16 00:04:20 44100 16 128 kbps 00:04:20 44100 16 192 kbps