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Post by Pickers Ditch on Aug 18, 2019 10:01:09 GMT
This has just popped up on our local daily paper website! It shows a float at the Colchester Carnival in 1938.  Who were the Follies Cabaret, I wonder? ...and who is the guitarist? When the paper's office opens tomorrow I'll try to find out more info. Update: the reporter I need to contact is on leave until 28th August - Wait out! |
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Post by Pickers Ditch on Aug 19, 2019 17:57:11 GMT
Picture now added as per MMs instructions.  |
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Post by Michael Messer on Aug 19, 2019 18:00:40 GMT
That's a great photo! Shine On Michael |
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Post by creolian on Aug 19, 2019 20:11:54 GMT
This has just popped up on our local daily paper website! It shows a float at the Colchester Carnival in 1938. Who were the Follies Cabaret, I wonder? ...and who is the guitarist? When the paper's office opens tomorrow I'll try to find out more info. Update: the reporter I need to contact is on leave until 28th August - Wait out! Hi PD! Your post got me curious about Colchester. it looks like Mardi gras ! I can only imagine the music. I shudder to think of what life was like for those people during the following years. . Also, the ancient history of the area is pretty effing amazing... My speculation is that colchester is the source for all Cultural Follies without the blue notes, and a lot of other things... nice ! C |
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Post by Michael Messer on Aug 19, 2019 20:51:37 GMT
Keeping it musical, I think in 1938 at the carnival there would have been a display by the Colchester Morris Men.
Hmmmm.... it doesn't quite have the same vibe as Mardi Gras. This is closer to Dimanche Léger
Shine On
Michael
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Post by creolian on Aug 19, 2019 21:09:24 GMT
Keeping it musical, I think in 1938 at the carnival there would have been a display by the Colchester Morris Men. Hmmmm.... it doesn't quite have the same vibe as Mardi Gras. This is closer to Dimanche Léger Shine On Michael I tried to look it up... all I could find and understand tells me a Dimanche Leger is a gathering of family, brunch? Honestly, this is a mystery to me... Musically, Im happy to say I've never had to work sound amplification on a choir of young girls on the back of a ford stake truck... that reso might as well be a drum 😜 J |
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Post by Pickers Ditch on Aug 20, 2019 7:06:27 GMT
This is more like the real stuff. Its Molly Dancing - The Soken Molly Gang - within a mile of our house (I've supped a few pints in The Ship  : 
"These Molly dancers joined forces to jig the day away to mark the almost forgotten Kirby riot.
On Sunday, the Ship Inn pub was surrounded by onlookers watching a spectacular display of morris dancing arranged to remember local labourers who lost everything in a revolt.
The Kirby riot in 1830 saw 300 agricultural workers march through the area to protest against low wages and poor conditions.
Members of the angry mob surged towards the Red Lion pub, where farm bosses were drinking, to demand better treatment.
After the riot, the ringleaders were shipped off to Van Diemen’s Land on the other side of the world.
Even after their sentences were over, they had no way to get home, so were forced to abandon hope of going back to their families."The original Blues Boys of NE Essex, perhaps? |
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Post by Michael Messer on Aug 20, 2019 7:29:29 GMT
Keeping it musical, I think in 1938 at the carnival there would have been a display by the Colchester Morris Men. Hmmmm.... it doesn't quite have the same vibe as Mardi Gras. This is closer to Dimanche Léger Shine On Michael I tried to look it up... all I could find and understand tells me a Dimanche Leger is a gathering of family, brunch? Honestly, this is a mystery to me... Musically, Im happy to say I've never had to work sound amplification on a choir of young girls on the back of a ford stake truck... that reso might as well be a drum 😜 J Creolian, you are absolutely correct that Dimanche Léger means a type of family gathering, but I have to confess that on my part it was just used as a "Light Sunday", rather than a "Fat Tuesday", as I had not heard of Dimanche Léger as a family gathering until now. So.... what about the guy with the cool guitar on the truck, someone in Colchester must know who he was. Shine On Michael |
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Post by leeophonic on Aug 20, 2019 7:39:21 GMT
I was in Van Dimens land last year, it is now called Tasmania and has developed into a nicer place than Colchester has today, hopefully the ancestors are reaping the benefit of transportation!!! Lee
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Post by Pickers Ditch on Aug 20, 2019 7:48:50 GMT
I'm working on it - the guitar on the truck, I mean.
Is it me or does that guitar look like a "faux" reso?
The F hole positions and shape are a bit different to a National of that era, I think.
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Post by Michael Messer on Aug 20, 2019 7:53:26 GMT
I'm working on it - the guitar on the truck, I mean. Is it me or does that guitar look like a "faux" reso? The F hole positions and shape are a bit different to a National of that era, I think. It's not a National, it's just a bit of old toot, but interesting to see it in Colchester. Shine On Michael |
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