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Sound Recording, Oxfordshire

Archive Item: LAVC/SRE/A328r

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Type of record: Archive

Title: Sound Recording, Oxfordshire

Level: Item

Classmark: LAVC/SRE/A328r

Creator(s): Pickering, Michael J

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

Date(s): 25 March 1978

Size and medium: 1 x 12.7cm open reel spool; Duration: 48' 38".

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/414379

Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture

Description

Fanny Hitchman, recorded in Adderbury; sings two songs. The first is a May song, the second is titled 'Dame Crump'. [Tr. 1]


Male informant, recorded at home, remembers inhabitants of Adderbury; walnutting as a boy; mail taken by horse and cart; Dumpling Holmes; gravestone inscriptions; village pubs and women; thoughts on changes in pub activities - darts, shove halfpenny, dominoes; house interiors; pig keeping and killing; food from pig; local rhymes/sayings; whistle player, Chris Dear; song re. fishing in Barford Brook; pigeon-keeping; the Rollright Stones and battle at nearby Long Compton; pub name, The Gate Hangs High, and associated saying; the name Adderbury; local school master and corporal punishment. [Tr. 2]


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Physical and technical conditions

Copy tape. 9.5cm/sec. High recording level. Adjusted on AC copy.

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