Sound Recording, Oxfordshire
Details
Type of record: Archive
Title: Sound Recording, Oxfordshire
Classmark: LAVC/SRE/A326r
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: 94' 40".
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/414377
Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
Description
Winnie Wyatt, recorded at home in Adderbury, talks about Janet Blunt's folk song collecting, and people's perceptions of her in Adderbury; musical afternoons/evenings at her house; singing in the local area (some pub singing); changes in the village and influences on old songs; community life and the Village Club; comments on sense of community and neighbourliness, incomers and work patterns; changes in the village environment (new houses, renovation of old, land use); village wells. [Tr. 3]
Wilf Walton, recorded at home in Adderbury, talks about the Adderbury ironstone industry of the 1930s; Janet Blunt and Miss Bradford; village roads, housing, gardens, pubs; industry in Banbury(compares with Swindon); local transport - closure of railway line; closure of village pubs, some now private homes; singing at Christmas; William Walton; the Adderbury carrier - wagon which collected goods from Banbury for Adderbury people; original position of village mill; amalgamation of Adderbury East and West; local flooding; more talk of local pubs (some now demolished) - describes pub interiors; Sick Club, Forresters' Society and changes with coming of the National Health Service; thoughts on life now and in the past; Wesleyan church Sunday School, Methodist Chapel and Anglican church - comments on singing and musical talent; schooling and corporal punishment. [Tr. 1]
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Copy tape. 9.5cm/sec. Oxide layer missing end Track One/start Track Two.
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