Sound Recording, North Yorkshire
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Type of record: Archive
Title: Sound Recording, North Yorkshire
Classmark: LAVC/SRE/A028
Creator(s): Oldroyd, Charles H
Site Location(s): Subject - Greenhow Hill, North Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom( 54.0735, -1.82911 )
Date(s): 6 Sep 1976 - 9 Sep 1976
Size and medium: 1 audiocassette.; Duration: 90' 23".
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/414078
Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
Description
Fred Longthorne, of Greenhow Hill, talks about lead mining in Nidderdale, and Greenhow Hill in particular: tools, local mines, clothing, shoes, discovering Stump Cross Caverns; mining career in the 1920s; carting; working the dumps (re-working spoil tips) for spar; Greenhow village school; community life; local midwife; church - many miners Wesleyan Methodists; working horses in mines; dialects and accents; discuss photographs of mines, Greenhow village, family (c. 1903), informant's family home (c. 1914-1920); discuss the poem 'Pateley Races' - informant reads some lines; poem 'Parting', by Thomas Blacker; radio script on John Kay's grave and the custom of knocking on it, by Elspeth Hawthornthwaite (programme pre-recorded October 13th 1954), entitled 'Contribution to the North Countryman - John Kay', read on the tape by Charles Oldroyd.
Recordings made on 6 September 1976 and 9 September 1976.
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