Sound Recording, Oxfordshire
Details
Type of record: Archive
Title: Sound Recording, Oxfordshire
Classmark: LAVC/SRE/A325r
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: 69' 22".
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/414376
Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
Description
Winnie Wyatt, recorded at home in Adderbury, talks about the Blunt family; book rescued from house following Janet Blunt's death; JB's family members and location of living members; Janet Blunt and evacuees during World War Two; her character and interests, folk song manuscripts, country dancing, (Manor) house and Winnie Wyatt's role in the household; JB collecting songs from William Walton, William ? and his son William at her house; another informant Solemon Lyons; pubs in Adderbury; changes in the village community; discuss a number of Janet Blunt's informants, listed by Michael Pickering from the Blunt manuscripts; reference to Old Mettle, Fool for the Adderbury Morris Men; Pancake Bell custom in the village; manuscripts sent to Cecil Sharp House [ Vaughan Williams Memorial Library] by informant, following Janet Blunt's death; further talk of JB as a person and her relatives; sending food parcels to the widows of Adderbury at Christmas; JB's childhood in India.
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Copy tape. 9.5cm/sec.
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