| Description | An elder woman traveller, Caroline Hughes, interviewed by Ewan MacColl. She also performs traditional songs.
Track 1: Actuality with a 63 year old traveller, Caroline Hughes, and Ewan MacColl. She gives biographical information about herself, her parents, her children and grandchildren, 3.01 mins
Track 2: Hughes speaks about 'hawking' and 'making an honest living' working in the fields. She relates how she had been a victim of a 'hit and run' car collision, after which she became disabled. She describes the social life of her community and how it has changed over time. 2.45 mins
Track 3: Hughes discusses the Christian faith, and her illiteracy with reference to other forms of knowledge; and she talks about her love for her "little wooden caravan" and her extended family. She talks about her desire to travel around the world. 2.37 mins
Track 4: Hughes describes food that she would cook, and talks about areas where they would camp. She talks about having "good relations" with "gentry, police and farmers". She recites where her family members were born, 4.11 mins
Track 5: Hughes describes the women making clothes-pegs out of wood, talks about needlework around the camp fire and learning songs from her mother. Her mother and father would sing together, brother played the fiddle, 2.13 mins
Track 6: Hughes sings two songs that she composed when she was a young girl about being a 'Romany Gypsy' and the concept of 'home', 1.33 mins
Total: 16.21 mins
Dubber's reference number: PLA DH444B0775274 |