Sound Recordings, West Sussex and London
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Details
Type of record: Archive
Title: Sound Recordings, West Sussex and London
Classmark: LAVC/SRE/A353r
Creator(s): Dunn, Ginette
Site Location(s): Subject - Birdham, West Sussex, England, United Kingdom( 50.7961, -0.83067 ); Subject - Catford, London, Greater London, England, United Kingdom( 51.4449, -0.02043 )
Date(s): 21 May 1974
Size and medium: 1 x 12.7cm open reel spool; Duration: 59' 10".
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/414404
Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
Description
George Belton, recorded at home in Birdham; relates biographical details - birthplace in Surrey, schooling, farm work including land work, milking cows and working with horses; childhood memories of growing up in Charnwood ; Smith Gifts (local wealthy man leaving gifts for villages, according to how he was treated by them when dressed as a homeless person); father's farming, living in a tied cottage; discusses parents whilst looking at photographs of them; grandfather playing the fiddle; family sing songs (hymns); sing, say, or pay game with his father; schooling; father ploughing - describes types of plough; brothers and sisters; school clothes; jobs before school each morning; work as a carter boy, aged 15-16; explains different roles of the carter and carter boy; carter/carter boy jobs advertised in the paper; decline in the use of farm horses, c. 1950s; farmwork at Madehurst. [Tr. 4]
George Belton, recorded in the Rising Sun pub in Catford, London; sings 'Jim the Carter Lad', 'If Those Lips Could Only Speak', 'The Mixed Up Old Man', 'The Old Rustic Bridge', 'The Bold Fisherman' and 'The Rest of the Day's Your Own'. [Tr. 1]. Concludes on tape LAVC/SRE/A354r.
25 of 79.
Provenance
The Catford recording is possibly a copy of an original recording made by Keith Summers. All the titles are recorded within the Keith Summers Collection, held at the National Sound Archive(collection ref. C1002/63).
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Physical and technical conditions
9.5cm/sec. High recording level. Adjusted on AC copy.
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