| Description | Interview by Charles Parker of Harold Fletcher (HF) describing children's games, political activity and travellers.
Track 1: Duration (min/sec): 0.15 Description of track: start to tape
Track 2: Duration (min/sec): 9.14 Description of track: HF talks about children's games eg 'kick the can', 'bedlam', playing and selling marbles, snowballing in winter
Track 3: Duration (min/sec): 2.53 Description of track: refers to political activity and sings chant 'The red, the red, the bonny bonny red'; most of the working class were Labour then; aware of elections but no other awareness or involvement in political activity or unions when he was younger c1910
Track 4: Duration (min/sec): 3.33 Description of track: HF talks about gypsies and that all children then were terrified of them; gypsies a common sight 'hawking round' with their wares; got 'hurdy gurder' players coming round
Track 5: Duration (min/sec): 1.28 Description of track: talks about instruments that were played
Total duration: (min/sec): 17.23 |