| Description | Tracks 1 - 12: Actuality with elderly women (Mrs Earnshaw and Mrs Butcher) from the town of Jump, South Yorkshire, and Charles Parker. They speak about the mining community in Jump, describe traditional games which are no longer played in the area such as 'Knurr and Spell', and also activities such as 'rabbit coursing'. The women discuss traditions such as wassailing and mumming and how these traditions are dying out. Parker encourages one of the women to sing verses from local folk songs. The women discuss whether the mining way of life and industry is dying out. On eof the women sings traditional songs accompanied by a melodeon.
Track 13: Silence, 1.30 mins
Track 14: Actuality resumes. The women describe a miner who would sculpt objects out of coal.
Total: 32.37 mins
Dubber's reference number: PLA KF565D0298580 |