Traditional music in England

Anne Raisen interview, part 01

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  • Type

    sound

  • Duration

    00:06:38

  • Cultures

    English

  • Shelf mark

    1CDR0012313 (copy of C1033/207)

  • Recording date

    1987-04-28

  • Is part of (Collection)

    Bob and Jacqueline Patten Collection

  • Recording locations

    Lopen, Somerset, England, UK

  • Interviewees

    Raisin, Annie (speaker, female)

  • Interviewers

    Patten, Bob (speaker, male)

  • Recordist

    Patten, Bob

  • Abstract

    [poor recording] Anne Raisen retells the Punky Night legend, as she was told it as a child, of the men from Dinnington, Lopen, Chinnock [West Chinnock] and Norton [Norton-sub-Hamdon] using candles in mangles to light their journey back from Glastonbury fair. Punky Night is still held at Chinnock and Norton. The Hinton version is a recent development by a man from Lopen (Mr Gillard) and contains additions that aren’t part of the tradition but has led to it’s becoming the best known village for Punky Night even though ‘it’s a tradition that’s gone wrong long the way’. Punky Night must always be on the last Thursday in October. She’s been running the Lopen Punky Night since she was 19. The last two years she has been too ill to run it, she had asked someone else to take over and they said ‘we’ll go to Hinton, we don’t really want to know’ so 1984 was the last year that it was done in Lopen. Can’t get mangles in the area now. Hinton has become all commercialised. It’s still carried out at Chiselborough and at one of the Chinnock’s but has died out in Dinnington. There isn’t a school in Lopen now, Lopen children have to go to Hinton. Not impressed with trick or treat as that’s an American thing and ‘traditions ought to be kept in their own country’.

  • Description

    Recording notes: Poor sound, only recorded in one channel (mono dubbing)

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Anne Raisen interview, part 01

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