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FTX-108 - BESSY BROWN BAGS

CUMBRIAN PACE-EGG CUSTOMS

Boys at Workington in Lancashire, talk about their Easter customs: dyeing the eggs, dumping (cracking them together), then some of the girls talk about rolling their eggs at Maryport and winning prizes for the toughest

We hear a group of boys, aged 11-13, from Near and Far Sawrey, in the Ambleside area (formerly Westmoreland) in the Lake District, with their play - recorded by Father Damian Webb in 1960

   

 

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