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FTX-042 - TWO GYPSY FAMILIES

THE PENFOLDS & THE WILLETTS

Rebecca Penfold remembers some of her mothers songs, and talks about her life as a gypsy visiting the West Country fairs. Her particular family clan, who travelled mainly in Devonshire, were known as "fu'z'-stickers", not because of their treatment of local bobbies but because they wittled fancy walking-sticks from the branches of gorse-bushes. The Willett family, on the other hand, recorded at Paddock Wood, a few miles out of London, travelled the Southern counties of Kent, Surrey & Sussex and regarded themselves as general dealers.
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  The Penfolds (Photo: Peter Kennedy)

THE BANKS OF THE SWEET PRIMEROSES - THE NIGHTINGALES SING - MEETING IS A PLEASANT PLACE - THE POOR ORPHAN BOY - Talk about the Rev Sabine Baring Gould - THE LITTLE OLD LOG CABIN - THE BANKS OF THE SWEET DUNDEE - THE FLOWER OF THE COUNTRY(or THE ROSE OF ARDEE) - THE COACHMAN - THORNEY PARK, NEAR BUCKINGHAMSHIRE - MY LOVE IS BUT A SAILOR BOLD DOWN BY THE TANYARD SIDE - THE LITTLE BALL OF YARN

 

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