Sound Recordings, North Yorkshire
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Type of record: Archive
Title: Sound Recordings, North Yorkshire
Classmark: LAVC/SRE/A241r
Creator(s): Cook, Catherine
Site Location(s): Subject - Ramsgill, North Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom( 54.1344, -1.81952 ); Subject - Pateley Bridge, North Yorkshire, United Kingdom( 54.0862, -1.75981 ); Subject - Greenhow Hill, North Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom( 54.0735, -1.82911 ); Subject - Bouthwaite, North Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom( 54.137, -1.81324 )
Date(s): [1970-1971]
Size and medium: 1 x 12.7cm open reel spool; Duration: 83' 01".
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/414290
Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
Description
Male informants in conversation in a pub [?in Ramsgill, November 1970], talking about Dead Mans Hill; Yorke's Folly; the ghost of a monk at Bewerley Hall; the Yorke family.
Male informants recorded in conversation in a pub [?in Pateley Bridge, December 1970], talking about inter-village/town rivalries; relating humorous local dialect anecdotes; talk of a haunted house; male sings 'My Old Man Said Follow the Band' (with ?ukulele accompaniment), followed by a medley of other songs. [Tr. 7]
Fred Longthorne, in conversation at home in Greenhow (North Yorkshire), March 1971, relating local anecdotes and recollections of practical jokes played; reads from a book on Greenhow (re. farming and leadmining) and the legend of John Kay and the tradition of tapping his headstone with shoes.
George Rispin, recorded at home in Bouthwaite [?in 1971]. Fragment only.
Mrs. Calvert, recorded at home in Pateley Bridge [?in March 1971], relating local anecdotes and reminiscences; tells a story of a tailor; Mrs. Calvert's brother, John Swales, also present and talks about poaching; witches and shapeshifting (hares); a witch doctor at Ripon; Mrs. Calvert relates story of a haunted cottage and storm over Pateley Bridge. [Tr. 1]
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