| Description | Tracks 1 - 11: Actuality with Mrs Dalton and her friend Hilda Carr and Charles Parker. The two women are elderly members of Silkstone, West Yorkshire, mining community. They discuss their memories old songs and mumming traditions in the local area. Mrs Dalton speaks lines from songs and talks about traditions in Worsbrough Brig where she is originally from. They discuss the local folk dances from their youths. Mrs Dalton speaks about meeting her husband who was a miner at Silkstone, and then about their family. Miss Carr talks about how the local area has changed over time. The two women talk about an accident at one of the pits in Silkstone and Miss Carr recites a poem about Crab Alley in Silkstone written in 1894. They discuss trade unionism among the mners of their generation.
Total: 33.47 mins
Dubber's reference number: PLA KF565D0295080 |