| Description | Charles Parker interviews Mr Boswell at a horse fair.
Track 1: Actuality with a horse trader, Mr Boswell, and Charles Parker. Boswell talks about some of his family history, with reference to his grandfathers' education and their being press-ganged into the armed forces at the time of the Napoleonic wars. 1.33 mins
Track 2: Boswell continues talking about his family history, including reference to his family's tradition of being scholarly and to his father Trafalgar Boswell. 1.27 mins
Track 3: Boswell speaks about the prejudice and insults that non-traveller schoolchildren would abuse him and his siblings with when he was a child. 1.02 mins
Track 4: He talks about the difference between the 'gentry' and working people. 0.36 mins
Track 5: Boswell descries how he and his siblings would study while travelling around the country, and about the craft skills of his father. 2.10 mins
Track 6: Boswell talks about a 'switchback' that his father helped build at Blackpool. 1.17 mins
Track 7: Boswell reminisces about his family's time at Blackpool, making reference to the camera obscura there. 0.42 mins
Tracks 8 - : He describes his father's gramophone, and how the family used it to earn money at public performances. He also talks about the 'Gypsy Mission', a religious institution that his parent's subscribed to, and for which his father would preach around the country. He also talks about the head of the mission, John Byram.
Track 11: Boswell describes his favourite schoolmaster, in Eastwood, Nottinghamshire, out of the 21 schools he attended, with reference to the charity that the schoolmaster showed to the travellers. 1.14 mins
Track 12: Boswell talks about his least favourite schoolmaster at Fakenham, Norfolk, and why. 0.50 mins
Track 13: Boswell talks about his sister who was married to a lay minister. 0.29 mins
Track 14: Boswell speaks about his family's religion as Baptist Christians, and tlaks about the various Christian denominations. 1.06 mins
Total: 16.39 mins
Dubber's reference number: PLA 2M448A0786874 |