Traditional music in England
George Ling interview, part 01
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Type
sound
Duration
00:09:20
Shelf mark
1CDR0010647 (copy of C1002/78)
Subjects
English folk songs and music (Suffolk); Interview
Recording date
1971-04-24
Is part of (Collection)
Keith Summers Collection
Recording locations
Croydon, London, England, UK
Interviewees
Ling, George (speaker, male)
Interviewers
Summers, Keith (speaker, male)
Recordist
Summers, Keith
Abstract
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.
Description
Item notes: Same session as the one on C1002/29. Interviewee notes: Of the Ling family of Blaxhall, Suffolk
Metadata record:
George Ling interview, part 01
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