More tosh about sailors and fishermen… this time by the ineffable Lesley Sarony, an astonishing performer whose career extended from before The Great War and continued into the 1980s. For this insight into the non-PC (and not terribly kind) way people thought in 1933, my thanks go to Neil Brookes…
Tag: dancing
The Sailor’s Hornpipe
Our pal Rosie Davis steps the Sailor’s Hornpipe in a live recording of the lunchtime session at the Frittenden Old Fashioned Night Out weekend, 2012.
If you listen carefully, you can hear the pub crowd asking her to demonstrate various ship-board activities, some of which are more serious than others!
The tune, of course, is the College Hornpipe, which is traditional for this dance. I apologise for my momentary flakiness near the beginning!
For more doings organised by Julie and Gavin Atkin see: Singdanceandplay.net
For more about Rosie, see: www.scorpweb.co.uk/html/rosie_davis.html
The image is an 1889 engraving of sailor’s dancing. Copies are available at www.old-print.com.
Oyster fishing under sail at Falmouth
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This is a super short film about the sail powered Falmouth oyster fishery is by David Young of POD Films. My thanks to Jim Godfrey for pointing the way.
Take a moment to look at their other stuff while you’re there – there’s a particularly charming one about Flora Day at Helston, with its extraordinary dancing celebration to mark the end of winter, and the Hal-an-Tow ritual.
For more intheboatshed.net posts relating to Cornwall, click here.