SCD CDA PALMER 16
Sound Lib. CDA
Roy Palmer collection CD 16
- British Library Sound Archive, [2001].
- 1 sound disc : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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.