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Sound Recordings, South Yorkshire

Archive Item: LAVC/SRE/A157r

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Type of record: Archive

Title: Sound Recordings, South Yorkshire

Level: Item

Classmark: LAVC/SRE/A157r

Creator(s): Russell, Ian; Howarth, Leslie

Site Location(s): Subject - Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom( 53.383, -1.4659 ); Subject - Castleton, Derbyshire, England, United Kingdom( 53.3431, -1.77506 ); Subject - Fulwood, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom( 53.35, -1.55 )

Date(s): 8 May 1973

Size and medium: 1 x 12.7cm open reel spool; Duration: 57' 21".

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/414207

Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture

Description

Jack White and Mrs. Jack White in conversation at their home in the Stannington area of Sheffield. Talk of family members; informant's birthplace; Castleton Wakes; haytime; schooling at Lydgate in Sheffield; local legend concerning the taking of gravestones from a local Quakers' Burial Ground, and the resultant souring of milk; Christmas; singing at the Three Merry Lads pub, Lodge Moor in Sheffield; local singers; discussion of the song 'Fulwood Farmers and Neighbours'. [Tr. 1]


Margaret Marsden of Fulwood, Sheffield, recorded by Leslie Howarth in or around 1962. Sings 'Green Mossy Banks of the Lea', 'Betsy the Serving Maid' and 'Broken Token'. [Tr. 2]. This recording is a copy of Howarth's original, made by Ian Russell with the permission of Colin Howarth.

Access and usage

Reproduction

Access

Conditions regarding access to these sound recordings are held on file in Special Collections, University of Leeds. Users are requested to contact the Head of Special Collections in the first instance.

Conditions regarding use of these sound recordings are held on file in Special Collections, University of Leeds. Users are requested to contact the Head of Special Collections in the first instance.

Physical and technical conditions

Whites' interview at 4.75cm/sec; Marsden interview at 9.5cm/sec.

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Agriculture

Christmas

Community Life

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England

English Language - Dialects

Folk Music

Folk singers

Folk songs, English

Folklore

Food

Food crops

Harvesting

Holidays

Local legends

Manners and Customs

Occupations

Rites and Ceremonies

Sheffield

Wakes (Castleton, Derbyshire, England)

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