Sound Recordings, Norfolk and West Yorkshire
Details
Type of record: Archive
Title: Sound Recordings, Norfolk and West Yorkshire
Classmark: LAVC/SRE/A033
Creator(s): Traynor, Helena M
Site Location(s): Subject - Heacham, Norfolk, England, United Kingdom( 52.9078, 0.49387 ); Subject - University of Leeds, Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom ( 53.8081, -1.5536 )
Date(s): 1977
Size and medium: 1 audiocassette.; Duration: 20' 48".
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/414083
Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
Description
The vicar of Heacham gives a history of the story of Pocahontas, including reference to the Rolfe family (Princess Pocahontas marries John Rolfe in the seventeenth century); buried in Gravesend in 1617; reference to the mulberry tree planted by Pocahontas; Heacham Hall and the Rolfe family. [Tr. 4]
Stewart Sanderson, Director of the Institute of Dialect and Folk Life Studies at the University of Leeds relates his understanding of the Pocahontas story; reference to Compton MacKenzie, who claimed Pocahontas as a distant relation. [Tr. 5]
Access and usage
Reproduction
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Physical and technical conditions
Very low recording levels.
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