The Tide Will Turn; The Whitby Horngarth Service by BIFOCALS 2013

John Hall hacks down and weaves interviews, field recording, archive material and cassette recordings made by participants to evoke the threads of superstition, social obligation and inconvenience with which we can trace the Whitby Horngarth Service from its roots in rituals of rogation to the present day, through 900 years of recorded observance. Interviewees are Lol Hodgson, Court Leet Bailiff of Fyling, Margaret Noble nee Hutton and George Cromack. Additional recordings were provided by George Cromack, the Doc Rowe Archive and Around About Yorkshire. photograph from 1999 shows Lol's predecessor Harry Green and Tim Osborne, the Hornblower. Made by John Hall for the 2019-20 Ritual Exchanges project. With thanks to the Doc Rowe Archive and the Whitby Literary and Philosophical society.