Sound Recordings, Somerset
Details
Type of record: Archive
Title: Sound Recordings, Somerset
Classmark: LAVC/SRE/A234r
Creator(s): Palmer, Kingsley
Site Location(s): Subject - Dowlish Wake, Somerset, England, United Kingdom( 50.9095, -2.8895 ); Subject - Merriott, Somerset, England, United Kingdom( 50.9128, -2.79538 ); Subject - Dowlish Wake, Somerset, England, United Kingdom( 50.9095, -2.8895 ); Subject - Chillington, Somerset, England, United Kingdom( 50.8833, -2.86667 ); Subject - Allowenshay, Somerset, England, United Kingdom ( 50.9158, -2.8801 ); Subject - Hinton St George, Somerset, England, United Kingdom( 50.9098, -2.82592 ); Subject - Crewkerne, Somerset, England, United Kingdom( 50.883, -2.79588 )
Date(s): [1968-1969]
Size and medium: 1 x 12.7cm open reel spool; Duration: 96' 45".
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/414284
Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
Description
Mr. E. Hallet relates the Dick Turpin legend; and the origin of the place name Allowenshay. Conclusion of interview which starts on tape LAVC/SRE/A233r.
Mrs. Collings of Dowlish Wake talks about a white donkey at Cricket Malherbie; a murder on Cricket Lane; a tunnel between the vicarage and Cudworth Church; old knight's house and moat; hearing the sound of a pack of hounds; excise men and smugglers.
Mrs. Snell of Higher Chillington relates the legend of a headless (?highway) man walking the road from Chard to Crewkerne; the church at Chillington; Wakehill and the Wake family.
School children talk about the ghost of a highwayman; the Devil buried under ? Hill; and a well drying up.
Mrs. ?Corr of Purdington House Farm talks about a chapel and burial ground; a highwayman burying victims in local wells; buried treasure and reference to the Moonrakers' legend; ghosts at Windwhistle; informant's mother seeing the Devil; highwaymen at Ash; a tunnel from Hey Farm.
Miss Fowler of Dowlish Wake talks about a tunnel from Manor House Farm to the village churchyard; the church at West Dowlish burned down and not rebuilt; Wakehill ghost dressed as a parson; hauntings at ?Chink; Mary Hunt's grave; headless coachman.
Mr. Rutter of Allowenshay talks about the village name; the church built by day and pulled down by night; Chiselborough Fair (early November); ?Heddon villagers and mangel-wurzel lanterns; bottomless Mall pit; Mary Hunt's grave.
Mr. Bryce of Ludney talks about a local bottomless pit; a tunnel from Hinton St George to a local farm; rings for highwaymen's horses at Windwhistle; Roundheads at Windwhistle.
Mr. Chick of Hinton St George talks about Allowenshay and its name; Dowlish Wake church built by day and dismantled by night; black dog on the road from Dowlish to Cudworth; the Spayke family; Nan Bull's grave (at crossroads).
Miss Lowe talks about smugglers; Cardinal Wolsey; Punky Night (October 28th), mangel lanterns and children's rhyme; [collector gives information on Punky Night and Chiselborough Fair]; tunnels connecting houses in Hinton St George and Crewkerne; hiding places for contraband; grandmother's ghost stories. [Tr. 3]
Miss Lowe relates supernatural experiences of her mother; rumours relating to a woman thought to be a witch - shape-shifter (hare); haunted cottage on the Crewkerne road; excavations at local hill around time of World War One.
Eddie Wills, Mrs. Wills and their son talk about a haunted house at Crewkerne; a tunnel to a friary; Punky Night; Chiselborough Fair; ghosts and the new moon; ghost coach at Windwhistle; black dog and chains; witches and ghosts at Merriott.
Mr. A. Irish talks about a tunnel at the Priory (farm); the Duke of Monmouth; Hinton House; Allowenshay place name.
Miss Aldridge and a number of neighbours talk about Cardinal Wolsey; local ponds; hauntings at Merriott; a drowned woman at Hinton St George; Punky Night and associated rhymes; the Duke of Monmouth; Mary Hunt's grave; church built by day and dismantled by night; tunnels at Cricket Court; white donkey (ghost).
May Perry of Chillington relates a supernatural personal experience; talks of the ghost of a local vicar; ? Chink; Windwhistle Inn; sound of galloping horses at full moon.
Mr. Dunnell and Mrs. Brown of Chillington talk about ghostly horsemen; the Moonrakers; Windwhistle and smugglers; Mary Hunt's grave; a murder and last hanging in the area; supernatural sounds and ghosts; local dungeon. [Tr. 1]
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