| Description | Compilation of interviews with groups of unidentified men and women, interviews recorded by Peggy Seeger and Ewan MacColl.
Track 1: A woman talks about fortune telling, 2.03 mins
Track 2: Peggy Seeger asks about elves and fairies, she talks about her cousin who believes in fairies, 0.44 mins
Track 3: She talks about superstitions concerning ladders, dreams, and crows, 2.13 mins
Track 4: She talks about dreams about teeth falling out, which she says is a sign of death, or dogs howling. She talks about remedies for illness, 1.16 mins
Track 5: She talks about wild marshmallow leaf, which can be used to make ointment, and using dock leaves to keep cuts clean and making medicine to cure whooping cough, 1.38 mins
Track 6: She talks about her religious beliefs and says that she always goes to church. Another woman says that she believes in God. She tells a story about meeting 'negroes' on the road and being afraid of them, 2.47 mins
Track 7: She talks about 'Scotch gypsies' and 'Italian gypsies' and the differences between 'gypsies', 2.32 mins
Track 8: She says that she does not wish to quarrel with anyone and she likes to help others, and the causes of fighting between 'gypsies', she talks about 'gypsies' and Jews, 1.32 mins
Track 9: Another woman talks about looking for work fruit picking and says that her husband decides where to go. A woman talks about being moved on while she was having a baby, 1.49 mins
Track 10: Silence, 0.39 mins
Track 11: Various short clips, 1.25 mins
Track 12: A man says he doesn't understand why people are all against 'gypsies' - perhaps it's because they think they're dirty, 1.21 mins
Track 13: They talk about Hitler killing 'gypsies', and say that travelling people fought in the War, 1.01 mins
Track 14: They talk about 'gypsies' doing 'dirty jobs' like potato picking and fruit picking, 1.52 mins
Track 15: They talk about the difficulties of finding work in the winter and say that they are happy to have work, especially in the winter, 1.35 mins
Track 16: They describe being wet and cold in a caravan and say that dogs live in better kennels than they have, 1.08 mins
Track 17: They talk about getting jobs in the summer and not being able to work because they need to look after the children, 2.15 mins
Track 18: They talk about children being ill in the winter. A man says he would like to have a house and a job and send his children to school, so they can have a better life, 2.39 mins
Track 19: A man says he's had enough of the life, his children should go to school and get good jobs, 1.13 mins
Track 20: They talk about moving about, and about their children's future if the work is all done by machines, 1.49 mins
Track 21: They talk about their children's future, the need to settle down and get education, living in a house being better than in a caravan, 2.48 mins
Track 22: They talk about gathering wood and the price of gas, travellers who buy houses, 2.00 mins
Track 23: They talk about 'the life', it's 'a dog's life', and say they'd like to have a house. One man says he likes to travel in the summer; another says he would live in a house all year round and he worries about his children's health and education, 2.34 mins
Track 24: A woman talks about bringing up her twelve children. She says that it's a hard life to bring children up, being moved on by the police. She says that being on a site is better than living on the roads, 2.31 mins
Track 25: They talk about toilets and making their own toilets and washing themselves in caravans and washing clothes. A woman talks about children dying, 2.16 mins
Track 26: A woman talks about the need for a site with a place to wash. A woman talks about having two caravans and having to get rid of one. She talks about losing her baby, 1.59 mins
Track 27: Silence, 0.47 mins
Charles Parker talks to a group of people from Poole who live near a 'gypsy' site.
Track 28: A woman talks about her husband, who works in a foundry - she says he would never comes home dirty, 1.45 mins
Track 29: A woman says 'gypsies' should be ashamed of being dirty. A man says that people have a right to live in the way that they want, but not near other people. A woman says 'gypsies' could be cleaner and Charles Parker talks about problems with washing and drying clothes, 2.02 mins
Tracks 30-31: A woman says that there used to be a few local 'gypsy' families and now there are dozens, 2.17 mins
Tracks 32-33: They talk about local people finding horses belonging to 'gypsies' grazing in their gardens
Track 34: Silence, 5.34 mins
Total: 1.05.22 mins
Dubber's reference number: PLA KF549C0336680 |