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Roy Palmer collection CD 16

Material type: MusicMusicPublisher number: BLSA C 1023 Roy Palmer Collection 41 | British Library Sound ArchivePublication details: British Library Sound Archive, [2001].Description: 1 sound disc : digital ; 4 3/4 inAvailable additional physical forms:
  • BLSA Playback 1CDR0007269, Archive 2CDR0009158.
Contents:
C1023/41 [not a VWML tape]. Tom Langley, West Midlands, 17 April 1970: 1. Hospital ghost story from his great aunt -- 2. Religion amongst miners, who were always close to death -- 3. Children and women working in the mines in his grandfather's time -- 4. Local pastimes; cock fighting, dog fighting -- 5. Dog fighting; Staffordshire bull terriers and their devotion to children -- 6. Illegal cock fighting; secrecy; how boxing weight divisions came from cock fighting; the Wednesbury parson who enjoyed cock fighting -- 7. Pigeon racing; funeral of Princess Irena [racing pigeon] -- 8. Gentle Jim [dog] -- 9. The Bilston riots [protest against police] -- 10. Miners strike at Tipton 1860's -- 11. The first pit at Chasetown, 1851; Irish labourers [Patsy Kilgarrick] -- 12. Industrial Revolution; Black Country; Umpshire locksmiths -- 13. Custom of dying women bequeathing their husband to a friend -- 14. Grorty pudding and other Black Country dishes; cagmag'pie -- 15. Has the pigeon come home yet Joe [fragments spoken and sung] -- 16. Talk about the song Cock a doodle doo [The cock it must have crowed] -- 17. Ben Crouch the grave robber [Diggum Upper] and the Tipton Slashers -- 18. His great aunt [b. 1848] viewing the hanging of Palmer the Poisoner -- 19. The Owd Ambulance Bloke [ambulance driver] -- 20. Great aunt's marriage -- 21. Grandfather's story of wife selling [woman sold at Tipton] -- 22. Black Country dialect [examples] -- 23. Story of local character Old Never Could, with poem -- 24. Careless driving story -- 25. Twicer [local magistrate] and story of woman fighting -- 26. Enoch and Eli story: Aynoch in the haunted house -- 27. Story of the cobbler in the haunted house -- 28. Ghostly lanes in Halesowen and Chasetown.
Holdings
Item type Home library Collection Shelving location Class number Materials specified Status Date due Barcode
Sound Recordings Sound Recordings VWML Palmer Recordings Storage SCD CDA PALMER 16 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Reference only SR05210

Compact disc.

C1023/41 [not a VWML tape]. Tom Langley, West Midlands, 17 April 1970: 1. Hospital ghost story from his great aunt -- 2. Religion amongst miners, who were always close to death -- 3. Children and women working in the mines in his grandfather's time -- 4. Local pastimes; cock fighting, dog fighting -- 5. Dog fighting; Staffordshire bull terriers and their devotion to children -- 6. Illegal cock fighting; secrecy; how boxing weight divisions came from cock fighting; the Wednesbury parson who enjoyed cock fighting -- 7. Pigeon racing; funeral of Princess Irena [racing pigeon] -- 8. Gentle Jim [dog] -- 9. The Bilston riots [protest against police] -- 10. Miners strike at Tipton 1860's -- 11. The first pit at Chasetown, 1851; Irish labourers [Patsy Kilgarrick] -- 12. Industrial Revolution; Black Country; Umpshire locksmiths -- 13. Custom of dying women bequeathing their husband to a friend -- 14. Grorty pudding and other Black Country dishes; cagmag'pie -- 15. Has the pigeon come home yet Joe [fragments spoken and sung] -- 16. Talk about the song Cock a doodle doo [The cock it must have crowed] -- 17. Ben Crouch the grave robber [Diggum Upper] and the Tipton Slashers -- 18. His great aunt [b. 1848] viewing the hanging of Palmer the Poisoner -- 19. The Owd Ambulance Bloke [ambulance driver] -- 20. Great aunt's marriage -- 21. Grandfather's story of wife selling [woman sold at Tipton] -- 22. Black Country dialect [examples] -- 23. Story of local character Old Never Could, with poem -- 24. Careless driving story -- 25. Twicer [local magistrate] and story of woman fighting -- 26. Enoch and Eli story: Aynoch in the haunted house -- 27. Story of the cobbler in the haunted house -- 28. Ghostly lanes in Halesowen and Chasetown.

BLSA Playback 1CDR0007269, Archive 2CDR0009158.

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