Catalogue description Sound recording of unnamed traveller talking about social attitudes towards travellers; Harry Cox of Catfield, Norfolk (b.1885) talking about and demonstrating his tap dancing mannequin.

Recording of interview by Charles Parker of an unnamed traveller talking about social attitudes towards travellers. Followed by interview by Charles Parker [and?] of Harry Cox (HC) of Norfolk (b.1885) talking about and demonstrating his tap dancing mannequin.

Track 1: Duration (min/sec): 0.17 Description of track: [silent start to tape]

Track 2: Duration (min/sec): 5.18 Description of track: unnamed traveller talks about the irony of people enjoying a few weeks camping holiday and washing in streams for a change and yet how unacceptable they find this during the rest of the year for travellers to exist like this; traveller describes travellers having a 'look about them' with their often darker skin and believes that if a traveller were given a council house he would not be welcomed by the neighbours; he thinks there is a 'traveller bar' (not a 'colour bar') in Cambridge and thinks life would be made awkward for a traveller trying to integrate in a council house; he illustrates the discrimination he has experienced against travellers by using an example of asking a door salesman who has arrived in a car selling electrical equipment for his 'hawkers licence'. This will cause the 'shackles [to] come up' as the salesman is being compared to a hawker traveller arriving in a horse and cart and selling his wares

Track 3: Duration (min/sec): 10.55 Description of track: HC demonstrates his tap dancing mannequin at start of track; HC made mannequin in 1911 or 1912; HC would have liked to have gone to dancing school; his grandfather learned how to tap dance; HC calls the dancing mannequin his 'dancing doll' and all describe it; HC demonstrates the mannequin tap dancing again; used to take the dancing mannequin to the pub; talks about playing

the fiddle for people dancing; demonstrates the tap dancing mannequin again [clock ticking throughout]

Total duration (min/sec): 16.32

See also LC/BPL 15 listening cassette of Harry Cox of Catfield, Norfolk and MS 4000/5/9 for folk music lyrics, magazines and booklets.

Original tape reel (the tape was originally accessioned as T32 and the dubbing reference number was 73/PLA)

NSA copy of CD-R serial number 2296 2217 5666

Archive master CD-R serial number 2296 2217 5665