Call No.: SCD CDA HAMER 47 Sound Lib. CDA Fred Hamer collection, CD 47 - British Library Sound Archive, 1950-1969. - 1 sound disc : digital ; 4 3/4 in.

Compact disc. Musical instruments: fiddle.

Contents: 1. [announcement] C443/33 Side 1: 2. Miss Lilley, Kimbolton, Huntingdonshire, 10 March 1966: Interview about May and other customs in Kimbolton [partial transcript in Hamer Ms file 6, p. 22-26 and file 11, p. 232-236 (on microfilm)]: 00:00 May Day -- 08:03 Plough Monday -- 12:18 Boxing Day -- 13:08 Oak Apple Day -- 13:50 Shrove Tuesday -- 15:43 Easter -- 16:40 Whitsun -- 19:40 Statty fair -- 20:17 Tandry fair (St Andrew's Day) -- 21:59 Enclosures -- 24:30 Charities -- 26:21 Bonfire night -- 28:10 Common land -- 3. country dance party (off air recording of part of a radio programme from Uttoxeter, Staffordshire, with Merry Blacksmiths Band, introduced by Kenneth Clarke): 00:00 [unidentified dance] ([unidentified hornpipe], College hornpipe) [starts part way through] -- 03:17 Kay Graham [fiddle]: Flaxley Green jig, Staffordshire hornpipe -- 05:50 Tony Smith: A little bit of binder string (monologue) -- Merry Blacksmiths Band: 08:39 Riffleman (Galopede, [unidentified rant]) -- 11:44 Tom Pate (Nutting girl).

These copies were made in 2011.



Acc no.: SR06908