Sound Recordings, Suffolk
Details
Type of record: Archive
Title: Sound Recordings, Suffolk
Classmark: LAVC/SRE/A366r
Creator(s): Dunn, Ginette
Site Location(s): Subject - London, Greater London, England, United Kingdom( 51.5085, -0.12574 )
Date(s): 1974
Size and medium: 1 x 12.7cm open reel spool; Duration: 62' 02".
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/414417
Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
Description
Ruby Ling, recorded at home in Snape on the 11 September 1974; talks about her father working as a tenant farmer on the Wentworth Estate at Aldeburgh; Sunday School treat (tea at the mansion on the estate); spending money; living conditions; Wentworth Estate organisation; home life as a child; church and chapel on Sunday; food; singsongs; sisters; pub singing at Debenham; Christmas singsongs; father singing in pub at Aldringham - his repertoire; in service in Aldeburgh and London (Hampstead); singing at friend's aunts house in Hendon; singing (accompanied and unaccompanied); thoughts on pre-recorded music and effect on live music; song sheets; in service in Aldeburgh and London; marriage.
Living in Snape Maltings after marriage; buying a house; farm work and gleaning; Snape Maltings; husband Billy Ling, describes work at the Maltings - malt drying process; husband's family; the Savages of Blaxhall; singing - locations, occasions, church singing; choosing songs; preservation of songs; pub singing. [Tr. 1]. Conclusion of session which starts on tape LAVC/SRE/A365r.
Ruby Ling, recorded at home on 30 October 1974, talks about her brother-in-law; singing to her children; her children's musicality; pub singing with a friend in Debenham; singing at weddings and Christmas. [Tr. 2]
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9.5cm/sec. High recording level. Adjusted on AC copy.
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