Sound Recordings, Somerset
Details
Type of record: Archive
Title: Sound Recordings, Somerset
Classmark: LAVC/SRE/A233r
Creator(s): Palmer, Kingsley
Site Location(s): Subject - Walford, Somerset, England, United Kingdom ( 51.0483, -3.05821 ); Subject - Chaffcombe, Somerset, England, United Kingdom( 50.8807, -2.92259 ); Subject - Dowlish Wake, Somerset, England, United Kingdom( 50.9095, -2.8895 ); Subject - Kingstone, Somerset, England, United Kingdom( 50.9179, -2.88858 )
Date(s): 1969
Size and medium: 1 x 12.7cm open reel spool; Duration: 96' 41".
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/414283
Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
Description
Female informant relates stories regarding local old women; the arrival of the Methodists; and a young man riding a horse.
Miss Pavey of Walford, recorded 2 April 1969, talks about tunnels to caves [?location].
Mr. White of Chaffcombe, recorded 5 April 1969, talks about a ghost at a doctor's surgery; Mary Hunt's grave; sticking a pin in a chimney to keep witches away.
Mr. Harvey of Chaffcombe, recorded 9 April 1969, relates black dog legend; sound of horses' hooves on road to Ilminster; angels portending bad luck; Mary Hunt; rebuilding Moolham Church - stones taken down by night; underground passages and tunnels in the area; unidentified lights; local witch; pirate swag in a church at Abbotsbury.
Mr. Perry of Abbotsbury (Dorset), recorded in his cider factory at Dowlish Wake, talks about Mary Hunt; Jack-the-Lantern; moving lights on the road to Chillingham; tunnels built by monks; smuggled goods; black dog.
Mrs. Perry [no relation to Mr. Perry], of Dowlish Wake, talks about Mary Hunt's grave; rebuilding of church and removal of stones at night; tunnels.
Jack Holland of Kingstone talks about tunnels and caves, and the robbing of coaches on the Fosse Way.
Mr. Summerhays of Oxenford talks about Mary Hunt's ghost; tunnels/passages [Tr. 1]; rebuilding of church and removal of stones at night; great-great grandfather at Windwhistle; tunnel from Sea [village]; Bere Mills Lane ghost.
Fred Shire of Oxenford talks about Mary Hunt; burned down church; Cricket Court.
Tom Ashford of Kingstone talks about ghosts; Moolham Church, built by day, taken down by night; Mary Hunt's grave; Jack-the-Lantern.
Mrs. Board of Dowlish Wake talks about Mary Hunt's grave at Oxenford crossroads, and ghost; murder at Knowle St Giles; Moolham Church; haunted house and ghost - personal experience; tunnels; dungeon said to hold the Devil; hanging place at Kingstone; dancing bears and circus visiting the village.
Mr. E. Hallet of Moolham talks about church built by day and dismantled by night - theories that parishioners at Dowlish Wake responsible, or fairies; apparitions; Mary Churchill (last woman hanged at Taunton); hauntings at Sea[village]; local curse on hill at Moolham; tunnel to church; Dick Turpinlegend; reference to moonrakers legend. [Tr. 2]. Mr. Hallet interview concludes on tape LAVC/SRE/A234r.
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