England : folk custom. St. Giles' fair, Oxford and May Day ceremony, Oxford. Westminster greaze, Westminster School, London. Dunmow flitch trail. Guy Fawkes. Isle of Man. Tynwald ceremony. Gaelic dialect
STP 305 BBC Sound Library England : folk custom. St. Giles' fair, Oxford and May Day ceremony, Oxford. Westminster greaze, Westminster School, London. Dunmow flitch trail. Guy Fawkes. Isle of Man. Tynwald ceremony. Gaelic dialect - 1935. - 1 audio tape reel
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St. Giles' Fair, Oxford - Introduction - Reading of notice outside police station proclaiming penalties for balloons, rice, sand, flour, meal, confetti, or water squirts - Interview with Chief Constable - Description of St Giles - Singing, Sing As We Go - Conversation between children. (4'10"), Narration by H. Lynton Fletcher, 9/9/1935. - May Day Ceremony, Oxford: 1. Bells of Colleg Chapel (0'20") -- 2. Hymnus Eucharisticus: Te Deum Patrem Colimus, composed by Dr Benjamin Rogers, 1614-1698, sung by choir of Magdalen College Chapel (3'40") -- 3. Latin hymn [unidentified] (0'33") -- 4. Latin hymn [unidentified] (1'40") -- 5. [Pause, with background of faint voices] (0'45") -- 6. Bells of College Chapel. Recorded at Magdalen College, Oxford 1/5/1936 - Westminster Greaze, Scrambling for pancake on Shrove Tuesday at Westminster School. Commentary by S.j. de Lotbiniere. BBC National Programme, 9/2/1937. (7'15") - Dunmow Flitch Trial, Foakes Memorial Hall, Dunmow, Essex, recorded 6/6/1938. Trial of the claimants (Mr & Mrs C.w. Garner): cross questioning and verdict (4'45") - Guy Fawkes, Cobden House Flats, Camden Town, London, recorded 1/11/1948. Children collecting money for the Guy: 1. Children sing in street: Remmember the 5th November (1'15") -- 2. Interviews: Money in tin, Guy, reason for celebration (2'35") - Tynwald Ceremony. Short explanation of ceremony. Meeting of the House of Keys with legislative Council in presence of the Governor First Deemster reading of the Acts passed during the year, first in English, The n in Manx. Recorded on Tynwald Hill, St John's, Isle of Man. 5/7/33 - Hawick Common Riding. Commentary; cornet carrying flag description of the Chase; explanation of the tradition; description of hut and feast; commentary on start of Riding the Marches and Cutting the Sod; Race of the Moss Troopers; bagpipes and drums; marking the boundary at the Corbal Pool (pipes and drums); Common Riding proclamation followed by signing. Recorded 13/6/37. (16'42") - Gaelic dialect - three stories (5'01"), Thomas McKenzie of Dingwall in Black Isle, Inverness. 19/7/43.
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