Traditional music in England
Austin and Mrs Wookey interview, part 01
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Type
sound
Duration
00:07:46
Cultures
English
Shelf mark
1CDR0012312 (copy of C1033/207)
Recording date
1986-09-19
Is part of (Collection)
Bob and Jacqueline Patten Collection
Recording locations
East Harptree, Somerset, England, UK
Interviewees
Wookey, Mrs (speaker, female)
Interviewers
Patten, Bob (speaker, male)
Recordist
Patten, Bob
Abstract
John Parnell (pronounced Perno) the estate foreman (Harry Curtiss was the estate manager). Ted Champ (Sharp mentions a Mr Champ). Richard ‘Dickey’ Adams whose daughter married Charlie Spearing. Suggests contacting Den Letherby whose wife did folk dancing. Mrs Chapman who lived in Magpie alley and had two sons. Anecdote about Morris Chapman coming back from working in the pits in Wales and ‘talking like a Welshman’. Don’t recall Florence Lockett. Anecdote about graffiti about one of the local vicars.
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Austin and Mrs Wookey interview, part 01
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