Sound Recordings, North Yorkshire
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Type of record: Archive
Title: Sound Recordings, North Yorkshire
Classmark: LAVC/SRE/A243r
Creator(s): Cook, Catherine
Site Location(s): Subject - Middlesmoor, North Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom( 54.1637, -1.86044 ); Subject - Pateley Bridge, North Yorkshire, United Kingdom( 54.0862, -1.75981 )
Date(s): [1970-1971]
Size and medium: 1 x 12.7cm open reel spool; Duration: 46' 08".
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/414292
Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
Description
George Metcalfe of Middlesmoor talks about Dead Mans Hill and the legend of a couple who robbed and murdered people on the pack trail, and buried them in the peat moorland where the bodies are preserved; a witch and shapeshifting into a hare; Pateley Bridge church organist; funeral food (ham); the 1745 Rebellion and the sound of horses' hooves.
Edward Stoney of Pateley Bridge relates a number of anecdotes. These concern a local preacher, a farmer cheated out of some hay, tar barrels used for Bonfire Night fire at Greenhow Hill; a man drinking paraffin.
Reverend Garnett Jones relates anecdotes concerning coffins, a church organist, supernatural presences, funeral teas and a woman who had prepared her own funeral, including cooking the ham.
George Rispin [GR] and Miss Brown talk about a man falling into a sugar barrel; Bouthwaite Hall; sheeps head broth; ?Toller's Gill; GR recites a poem about sugar and candy; talk of a black dog (ghost) and a boggart moving a picture. [Continues on tape LAVC/SRE/A244r].
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