Adam Lee, a Gypsy et al. in Norwood and Streatham, South London - between late 18th Century and early 19th Century
from Reminiscences of a Country Journalist, page 4:
I remember Parchmore Road as a green lane, impassable in winter, while the ground eastward, now intersected by the villa-lined road from Whitehorse Road to Upper Norwood, was a thick wood, in which I have seen rabbits running and heard the nightingale sing. The gipsies who frequented the woods and green lanes were not held in such disrepute as in some other localities, perhaps from the circumstances of the Lees and Coopers being reputed rich. […] An old master … more >>
Thomas Frost, Reminiscences of a Country Journalist (London, 1886), p. 4. https://led.kmi.open.ac.uk/entity/lexp/1665921275572 accessed: 16 November, 2024
Listeners
Listening to
hide composers| violin music to accompany dancing | performed by Adam Lee the Gypsy, Theobald the baker |
Experience Information
| Date/Time | between late 18th Century and early 19th Century |
| Medium | live |
| Listening Environment | in the company of others, in private, indoors |
Notes
Frost is recalling the ‘topographical changes’ and ‘Gipsy camps at Penge and Anerley’ near his boyhood home in Croydon.