Traditional music in England

Mrs Louie Norman interview, part 02

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  • Type

    sound

  • Duration

    00:04:20

  • Cultures

    English

  • Shelf mark

    1CDR0011431 (copy of C1033/136)

  • Recording date

    1983-02-16

  • Is part of (Collection)

    Bob and Jacqueline Patten Collection

  • Recording locations

    Ilminster, Somerset, England, UK

  • Interviewees

    Norman, Mrs Louisa, 1905- (speaker, female)

  • Interviewers

    Patten, Bob (speaker, male), Patten, Jacqueline (speaker, female)

  • Recordist

    Patten, Bob

  • Abstract

    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.

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Mrs Louie Norman interview, part 02

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