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Sound Recordings, Oxfordshire
Harrop, Peter K
28 May 1979
Don Rouse, recorded in the Elephant and Castle pub, Bampton, talks about the Bampton mummers' play; the play's revival in 1946 by Ted Hunt, following enquiries by Reverend Bateman; the script; learnin...
Sound Recordings, Oxfordshire
Baldwin, John R
1969
Harry Johnson, recorded at home in Standlake; sings 'I Stand on a Lonely Seashore', 'Meet Me by the Moonlight', 'Polly Perkins of Paddington Green' [fragment], 'The Two Beats the One', sung by informa...
Sound Recording, East Riding of Yorkshire
Chamberlain, John S
July/August 1961
Herbert Sykes of Wetwang relates items of weatherlore - rainbows, moon (and associated rhymes), wind direction, horses' behaviour/crows' behaviour (nesting) as signs of weather; Mrs. Sykes relates say...
Sound Recordings, Oxfordshire
Baldwin, John R
1966
Harry Lay, recorded at home in Bampton; talks about playing the character Father Christmas in a mummers' play performed in Bampton each year; recites lines from the play, and goes on to talk about his...