Traditional music in England
Austin and Mrs Wookey interview, part 04
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Type
sound
Duration
00:06:05
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
[better sound quality from this point onwards] Granny lived at Litton and drove her donkeys that carried coal on a walking track rather than paying the road toll. Duck shooting, would use cracked china in the shot as this was more effective than round shot. Anecdotes about Benjamin Watts (Sharp’s informant from Frampton Gurney) using tacks in his gun and nailing 47 starlings to a tree with one shot and the time at the Farrington Inn when he was convinced that he had hit him with a brush handle in his sleep. He wouldn’t let his daughter marry Fred Horler, she was only able to marry after his death. Anecdote about the doctor visiting them.
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Frampton Gurney should be Farrington Gurney
Posted by christine pritchard, lecturer, City of Bristol College on 20/12/2010 16:32:00
Austin and Mrs Wookey interview, part 04
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