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Sound Recordings, Somerset and Dorset

Archive Item: LAVC/SRE/A235r

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Type of record: Archive

Title: Sound Recordings, Somerset and Dorset

Level: Item

Classmark: LAVC/SRE/A235r

Creator(s): Palmer, Kingsley; Reid, M

Site Location(s): Subject - Blandford Forum, Dorset, England, United Kingdom( 50.8607, -2.16174 )

Date(s): [1968-1969]

Size and medium: 1 x 12.7cm open reel spool; Duration: 12' 03".

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/414285

Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture

Description

Female informant [possibly conclusion of interview with Mrs. Brown from the end of tape LAVC/SRE/A234r] talks about a grey dog ghost at The Grange; and the Churchills' house.


Mr. J. Hodges of Blandford Forum (Dorset), recorded by M. Reid of Blandford School in October 1969. Relates stories of Sir William Portland; deer keepers and poachers and the burying of a severed hand; tunnels between local chapel and houses; Squire Eldrick buried in a wall of Wimborne Minster; dog hauntings and the medieval practice of killing a dog on completion of a bridge; ghosts and buried treasure; sound of coach and horses; Corfe Castle; ghost of Catharine Parr or Anne Boleyn walking the Queen's Walk at a manor house owned by Henry VIII.


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