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Sound Recordings, North Yorkshire

Archive Item: LAVC/SRE/A245r

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Type of record: Archive

Title: Sound Recordings, North Yorkshire

Level: Item

Classmark: LAVC/SRE/A245r

Creator(s): Cook, Catherine

Site Location(s): Subject - Middlesmoor, North Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom( 54.1637, -1.86044 )

Date(s): [March 1971]

Size and medium: 1 x 12.7cm open reel spool; Duration: 33' 19".

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/414294

Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture

Description

Recordings made in Middlesmoor. Male informant tells the story of George Sunter selling two dogs at Richmond market; male informant tells the story of the horse Stockton Maggie; the Devil appearing to Jack Bell; male informant relates an anecdote concerning an American farmer visiting the Dales. [Recorded in a pub. All but the last story are copies of recordings on tape LAVC/SRE/A239r.] [Tr. 3]


George Metcalfe relates the story of farmers at ?Hayden Carr, and their dogs chasing an old woman/hare; the wise woman of ?Roscar and the missing sovereign; haunting of a house by a nun/nurse in High Lofthouse; anecdote re. a telephone; the Relief of Mafeking and the announcement at Middlesmoor. [Tr. 4]


Male informant relates stories concerning buying/selling pigs and horses; a farmer buying back his own horse; a man who overslept; a visit to the Royal Show at Harrogate. [Tr. 5]


8 of 9.

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Physical and technical conditions

Part at 19cm/sec. [Tr. 3]; rest at 9.5cm/sec.

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