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Sound Recordings, Oxfordshire

Archive Item: LAVC/SRE/A324r

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Type of record: Archive

Title: Sound Recordings, Oxfordshire

Level: Item

Classmark: LAVC/SRE/A324r

Creator(s): Pickering, Michael J

Site Location(s): Subject - Adderbury, Oxfordshire, England, United Kingdom( 52.0169, -1.31192 )

Date(s): September/October 1973

Size and medium: 1 x 12.7cm open reel spool; Duration: 72' 27".

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/414375

Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture

Description

Wilf Walton [daughter also present], recorded in Adderbury; recites texts of a number of unidentified poems/monologues and songs; daughter talks about her father acting in local productions of 'The Mirror of Souls' and 'How Time Flies'. [Tr. 2]


Male informant [? Wilf Walton], recorded in Adderbury, talks about his schooling and the village school master; leaving school at thirteen; working in village grocer's shop; apprentice boot maker in Banbury for three years; father a cobbler in Adderbury; informant's other work in insurance, then as a newsagent in the mid-1940s; comments on class/population changes in the village; welfare and the workhouse; Scottish billet in the village during World War One; comment on Janet Blunt. [Tr. 1]


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Copy tape. 9.5cm/sec.

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