| Ref No | MS 4000/5/1/1/9 |
| Title | Sound recording of unnamed traveller talking about social attitudes towards travellers; Harry Cox of Catfield, Norfolk (b.1885) talking about and demonstrating his tap dancing mannequin. |
| Level | File |
| Date | 30 August 1963 |
| Description | Recording of interview by Charles Parker of an unnamed traveller talking about social attitudes towards travellers. Followed by interview by Charles Parker [and?] of Harry Cox (HC) of Norfolk (b.1885) talking about and demonstrating his tap dancing mannequin.
Track 1: Duration (min/sec): 0.17 Description of track: [silent start to tape]
Track 2: Duration (min/sec): 5.18 Description of track: unnamed traveller talks about the irony of people enjoying a few weeks camping holiday and washing in streams for a change and yet how unacceptable they find this during the rest of the year for travellers to exist like this; traveller describes travellers having a 'look about them' with their of ten darker skin and believes that if a traveller were given a council house he would not be welcomed by the neighbours; he thinks there is a 'traveller bar' (not a 'colour bar') in Cambridge and thinks life would be made awkward for a traveller trying to integrate in a council house; he illustrates the discrimination he has experienced against travellers by using an example of asking a door salesman who has arrived in a car selling electrical equipment for his 'hawkers licence'. This will cause the 'shackles [to] come up' as the salesman is being compared to a hawker traveller arriving in a horse and cart and selling his wares
Track 3: Duration (min/sec): 10.55 Description of track: HC demonstrates his tap dancing mannequin at start of track; HC made mannequin in 1911 or 1912; HC would have liked to have gone to dancing school; his grandfather learned how to tap dance; HC calls the dancing mannequin his 'dancing doll' and all describe it; HC demonstrates the mannequin tap dancing again; used to take the dancing mannequin to the pub; talks about playing
the fiddle for people dancing; demonstrates the tap dancing mannequin again [clock ticking throughout]
Total duration: (min/sec): 16.32 |
| Related Material | See also LC/BPL 15 listening cassette of Harry Cox of Catfield, Norfolk and MS 4000/5/9 for folk music lyrics, magazines and booklets. |
| Physical Description | Listening copy: 1 x CD-R serial number CF129 K006 7774
Original tape:
Size: 5" tape reel
Gauge: 1/4" tape (0.625cm)
Speed: 7.5ips (19cm/s);
EQ Curve used: IEC
Track configuration: Half Track Stereo
Dubbing Date: 12/02
Notes: Volume level fluctuates; recording stops and starts intermittently |
| Access Status | Open |
| Language | English |