Village and Farm
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Details
Type of record: Archive
Title: Village and Farm
Classmark: LAVC/FLF/5/1
Site Location(s): Subject - Ripon, North Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom( 54.1358, -1.52826 ); Subject - Hungerford, West Berkshire, England, United Kingdom( 51.4151, -1.51556 )
Date(s): 1960-1973
Size and medium: 1 box [part] with 1 file of typed papers, magazine extracts and mounted magazine and newspaper cuttings.; 0.41 linear metres.
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/410644
Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
Description
This subseries, comprising one file only, contains items on village and farm life, and related topics. This includes W. E. Tate's paper, 'Parish Records and the English Village Community', extracted from an unidentified issue of the 'Amateur Historian', pp. 110-114; an orthographic typed transcription of a recording of an interview with James H. Dunnachie of Maybole (Ayrshire) by Catherine Czerkawska, including personal history, games and jokes, superstitions, songs, tales and local characters ([17] leaves); a colour section from the West Yorkshire Road Car Company calendar for 1963 on the Hocktide Festival at Hungerford (Berkshire); G. Bernard Wood's article, 'North Country Amusements of Long Ago', including information on fairs, performing animals and Pace Egg Plays in Yorkshire, extracted from 'Country Life' (2 December 1965), pp. 1511-1514; Bea Howe's article, 'Blackamoors on the Road', extracted from 'Country Life' (18 November 1969), pp. 700 and 703; Ian Niall's article, 'The Passing
of the Ballad Singer', extracted from 'Country Life' (23 December 1971); and mounted magazine and newspaper cuttings from 'The Guardian', 'Country Life', 'The Ridings', 'Old Cornwall', 'John Peel Jottings', the 'Yorkshire Post' and 'Camping and Caravanning', on Ronald Blythe's recording of Akenfield villagers for his book, 'Akenfield: Portrait of an English Village' (London: Allen Lane, 1969), the town crier at Kingsbridge (Devon), the Ripon hornblower, the East Riding character Rabbit Nanny, the burning of effigies, Furth Neets in the Lake District, a case of encroachment in North Yorkshire, Courts Leet, Martinmas Fairs, fairs including the fair run by the Ling family of Sheffield, the Preston Guild, Blackamoors and a performing bear.
System of arrangement
File contents retained in original classification order, and chronologically within this.
Access and usage
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