A Visit To Trumpton (Side 1 - Part 1 of 2)

"Trumpton is a market town set in the heart of rural England, within a short bus-ride of Camberwick Green.
The Market Square is like many other market squares, with its handsome Gothic Town Hall, the statue of the Middle-aged Queen Victoria, and an assorted collection of shops and houses; but one feature is unique - the Trumpton Clock.

Every morning, the people of Trumpton take in their milk, open their shops and set our their wares. They do this with one eye on the town hall clock, and one ear too, for they know that dead on the hour a slight rumble from the recesses of the tower will announce that free entertainment is about to begin.

With a loud clonk the two doors on either side of the clock face slide open. To the regular rhythm of a gay mechanical tune, the gilt figures of Sir Rufus and Lady de Trompe emerge and solemnly strike the hour on a bell." ...

These are the words from the Trumptonshire creator Gordon Murray that were printed on the back cover of the fairly rare 1967 vinyl album "A Visit To Trumpton". The previous album "Welcome To Camberwick Green" has now been reissued four times, "A Visit To Trumpton" issued just once (which I find strange as it was arguably the most popular of the trilogy).

It's with a lot of love that I've put together a video to go with side 1 of that album. The stories on all three albums were unique to those vinyl releases, so at times there will be glaring visual inaccuracies which are unavoidable.

As ever, the fantastic music was down to the late Freddie Phillips with the legendary, instantly recognisable narration of Ipswich boy Brian Cant.

Unlike the first album, "A Visit To Trumpton" had a tracklisting (even though they weren't seperated on the actual vinyl record). The tracks are -
1. Tick-Tock-Track 0:06
2. Chime and Clock Theme 0:32
3. Trumpton 1:20
4. The Signing Song 2:33
5. To-and-Fro 3:39
6. The Duck Song 4:21
7. The Litter Song 6:43
8. Chippy Minton's Song 7:42
9. Ting-a-Ling-a-Ling 9:19
I'm guessing that each song was given a working title by Freddie Phillips but never updated.

In 1992, Urban Hype sampled this record three times for their single "A Trip To Trumpton" (which was very good!), the first sample appears here at 6:29.

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• 1967

[marsamgod73]

I always thought Brian Cant was a spelling mistake. 

[ianmedium]

thank you for uploading this. I grew up with Trumpton and Camberwick Green and chigley. Happy memories of a truly simpler time. The world is far to sophisticated (sic) now!

[stingrayfan2007]

was there a chigley version of this?

[BalloonCreations09]

Philby? Kim Philby? Bloody traitors everywhere, even in sacred Trumpton! Shocking!

[doctorcoley]

Love Trumpton! But what on earth is his Worship doing from 10:10 onwards? Hahaha! :D

[Iain1962]

I love Freddie Philips music.

[tonybadham]

big