Sound Recording, Suffolk
Details
Type of record: Archive
Title: Sound Recording, Suffolk
Classmark: LAVC/SRE/A343r
Creator(s): Dunn, Ginette
Site Location(s): Subject - Snape, Suffolk, England, United Kingdom( 52.171, 1.50047 )
Date(s): 9 September 1974
Size and medium: 1 x 12.7cm open reel spool; Duration: 60' 22".
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/414394
Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
Description
Bob Hart, recorded at home in Snape, sings 'Eat More Fruit'; talks about Jack Harland and learning 'Bold General Wolfe' from him; sings fragment of 'Up She Went Like a Rocket', also sung by Harland; song ownership and Percy Webb; step dancer and singer Dick Woolnough; singer Bob Roberts; anecdote concerning Wicketts Richardson, also his chairing singing nights; pub singing and the giving of order; comments on the singing at the Butley Oyster pub the previous night, the audience and the importance of their responses; sings 'If Those Lips Could Only Speak'[parody, one verse], and talks of version heard the previous night at Butley; women during wartime; sings 'What a Time' [incomplete]; song ownership and singing in front of people who 'own' songs (e.g. Cyril Poacher); sings 'If I Were a Blackbird' [incomplete] and 'When the Sunset Turns the Ocean Blue to Gold' [incomplete], with comments on both; living in Kessingland as a child.
Bob Hart talks about his grandparents' farm and the animals kept; thatching; egg collecting and egg pie/pudding; buttermaking; kitchen utensils and brick oven; lighting; transport; Trinity Monday holiday and Trinity Fair; school in Southwold; leaving school at thirteen, describes working on father's farm on the estate of Sir Thomas Gooch, and family's employment on the estate; comment on Suffolk estates and land ownership; local lords of the manor; personal and father's politics.
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9.5cm/sec. High recording level. Adjusted on AC copy.
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