Sound Recordings, Staffordshire

Description

Ann Fowell, recorded in Abbots Bromley on the 10 December 1975 ; talks about the Abbots Bromley Horn Dance - the whereabouts of the whip seen in a photograph of the Hobby Horse; husband, James Fowell, joining the dance team after the second war; horns kept in the village church; costumes worn; music - tunes played; la-las Lady Bagot's tune; pubs in Abbots Bromley; dancing in the street; dancing at Dapple Heath; collecting money; Fair and amusements; dance technique; team dancers met at local pub - sort of Men's Club; informant's biographical details, and details of the Fowell family. [Tr. 1] Richard Hollins and his son, Ken Hollins, recorded on the 11 December 1975; recollect the Abbots Bromley Horn Dance: first remembrance from 1901; relates chain of events on the day of the dance; dance tunes played; route of the dance, including dancing at Admaston, Blythe Field Hall, Newton, Dapple Heath and Bagot's Bromley; reference to the Bagot family estate and Blythe Field Hall; dance team members. [Tr. 2] 2 of 2.

Metadata

Identifier sjq9wrhg
IRN 414074
Class Mark LAVC/SRE/A024
Level Item
Type of Record Archives - ISAD(G)
Peristent Link http://prototype1.library.leeds.ac.uk/sjq9wrhg
Collection(s) Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
Category Archive
Parent Record Audiotape Sound Recordings
Creator(s) Buckland, Theresa Jill
Date 10/Dec/1975 - 10/Dec/1975
Size and Medium 1 audiocassette., Duration: 65' 43".

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