Traditional music in England

Jim Small interview, part 04

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  • Type

    sound

  • Duration

    00:04:12

  • Cultures

    English

  • Shelf mark

    1CDR0012312 (copy of C1033/207)

  • Recording date

    1986-08-16

  • Is part of (Collection)

    Bob and Jacqueline Patten Collection

  • Recording locations

    Priddy, Somerset, England, UK

  • Interviewees

    Speed, "Jim" Ernest James, 1916- (speaker, male)

  • Interviewers

    Patten, Bob (speaker, male)

  • Recordist

    Patten, Bob

  • Abstract

    Origins of the name Pincross. Local Friendly Society. Disagrees with a number of the society decisions. Prices of the dinners have gone ‘sky high’. Westbury Society day used to be on Trinity Monday and Priddy was on Whit-Monday but now they’re under the Parish so it’s all on the same day. In Westbury they used to work on Whit-Monday so as to get Trinity Monday off. Priddy Fair is bigger than ever now. It nearly died out. Remembers when they used to start selling the sheep at 11.00 and the Fair would be over by 2.30. One year their sheep were the best in the Fair and made 26 shillings per head. The Friendly Society was formed in the year of the Battle of Waterloo [1815]. Now there’s no new blood in the village so no one will stand on the committees. Of his school year of 68 children there’s now only three of them left in the village.

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Jim Small interview, part 04

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