Roy Palmer collection CD 19
SCD CDA PALMER 19 Sound Lib. CDA Roy Palmer collection CD 19 - British Library Sound Archive, [2001]. - 1 sound disc : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Compact disc. Tales, reminiscences.
C1023/46 [not a VWML tape]. J Francis, Castle Bromwich, West Midlands, 24 January 1974: 1. The female highwayman -- C1023/47 [VWML tape 369]. Arthur Lane, Stanton Long, Shropshire, interviewed by Charles Parker, 19 April 1974: 2. Introduction by Charles Parker -- 3. Talk about early life, family smallholding -- 4. His village -- 5. Earliest memories [the 1887 Jubilee] -- 6. Family, mother, jobs around the home -- 7. Christmas, killing pigs, cleaning intestines -- 8. Relatives, his one legged uncle -- 9. Father's reluctance to go to the pub, mother used to fetch beer for hims, the cost of clothes and boots, father's work on farm, wages -- 10. Singing hymns at home on a Sunday night, father reading bible -- 11. Early days at school -- 12. Swallow is a pretty bird [school song, learned song during the time of the coronation of King Edward VII] -- 13. Empire Day celebrations at school, 1893 [continued on next tape] -- C1023/48 [VWML tape 370]. Arthur Lane, Stanton Long, Shropshire, interviewed by Charles Parker, 19 April 1974: 14. Sports on Empire Day [continued from previous tape] -- 15. Leaving school at 11 years to work for a rabbit catcher -- 16. Working as rate collector in Tutford parish -- 17. School games & rhymes [There was a man and he went mad], School marching song [Tramp, tramp, tramp] -- 18. Discipline at school, use of the cane, Agricultural workers' union, wages -- 19. Working for rabbit catcher [1896], using ferrets -- 20. Poaching pheasants, [story of rusty gun] -- 21. Relationship between farm workers and squire of estate, pay, food in lieu of wages, morality and rules -- 22. His views on class & deference to authority, ambitions as a young man -- 23. Working on roads as foreman.
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