Sound Recordings, Wiltshire and Oxfordshire

Description

Session recorded at Swindon Folksingers' Club in 1968 [?possibly a regional English Folk Dance and Song Society- organised Christmas event]; accordion tune; unidentified male sings [? 'Can You Dance the Polka?'], with guitar accompaniment and assembled company joining in the chorus; male sings [unidentified]; male sings [first line: 'As I came home a little afore my time']; tune medley on the accordion; dancing, accompanied by accordion, fiddle and whistle; male sings [unidentified]; all sing 'Lilly the Pink'; male sings, with guitar accompaniment, 'Polly Perkins of Paddington Green', accordion tune; males recite the Bampton Father Christmas mummers' play; dancing with accordion accompaniment [including 'Shave the Donkey']; male sings 'Old Johnny Bugger'; dancing to accordion accompaniment; male sings 'German Shoemaker'; accordion plays 'Young Sailor Cut Down in his Prime'. [Tr. 1] Mr. T. J. Miller, recorded at home in Charlton-on-Otmoor in 1969; sings 'Cold Blows the Blast' [fragment], 'The Maid of the Mill' [fragment], 'Don't Send My Boy to Prison' [fragment], 'Larboard Watch', 'Everything's Done for the Best'; recites 'The Ballad of Thomas Trite'; sings 'It's Nothing to do with Me', 'In Days Gone By' [fragment] and 'Sarah and Henery'. [Tr. 2] Mrs. F. E. Palmer, recorded at home in Witney in 1969; sings 'Break the News to Mother', 'The White Rose', 'Try to Forget Him', 'I'm a man that's done wrong to my parents', 'The Two Orphans', 'Maria Martin', 'Oxford City', 'Up in the North', 'Poor little innocent daughter of mine'; talk of informant's aunt's mother and song making, recording real life events; sings 'The Sailor Boy', 'Room in that beautiful heavenly land', 'Baby is Dead', 'Martha my Dear Wife', 'The Bailiff's Daughter of Islington'; talk of informant's work as a glove maker in Charlbury in 1932, and at home (informant says outwork still undertaken in Leafield and surrounding villages); her wages; charcoal burning; collecting firewood from the local forest (wooding); rabbiting; Leafield village name discussed; anecdotes about Leafield Band; Spanish Liquor Sunday - homemade Spanish liquorice, outing for the village on Palm Sunday; Leafield morris dancers; describes Forest [?of Dean] and going nutting; burial routes [?coffin trails] through the forest. [Tr. 3] 11 of 20.

Metadata

Identifier	gkrk3dcm
IRN	414537
Class Mark	LAVC/SRE/A486r
Level	Item
Type of Record	Archives - ISAD(G)
Peristent Link	http://prototype1.library.leeds.ac.uk/gkrk3dcm
Collection(s)	Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
Category	Archive
Parent Record	Audiotape Sound Recordings
Creator(s)	Baldwin, John R
Date	1968-1969
Size and Medium	1 x 12.7cm open reel spool, Duration: 130' 21".

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