Sound Recording, Suffolk
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Type of record: Archive
Title: Sound Recording, Suffolk
Classmark: LAVC/SRE/A373r
Creator(s): Dunn, Ginette
Site Location(s): Subject - Little Glemham, Suffolk, England, United Kingdom( 52.1667, 1.43333 )
Date(s): 11 September 1974
Size and medium: 1 x 12.7cm open reel spool; Duration: 68' 09".
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/414424
Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
Description
James Knights, recorded at home in Little Glemham; talks about singing as a boy, winning first prize in a singing competition; song papers, murder songs, song papers and penny song books; learning tunes; sister's musical ability - organ playing in church, teaching; other siblings; father's job as an engine driver; move to Yorkshire, aged fourteen (from Woodbridge); working with horses on a farm in ?Welbury (North Yorkshire, near Northallerton); returning to Suffolk after six years - conditions in farming; mother's life; marriage; spending time with his children; seasonal work at Maltings in Burton upon Trent, October to Whitsun (after the harvest at home) - describes lodgings, process of making malt from barley, beer allowance; money and decimalisation; serving as sergeant in France during World War One with the Suffolk Regiment - Territorials (Terriers); reference to the Boer War.
James Knights talks about his work breaking in horses in Thornton-le-Dale (North Yorkshire); taking stud race horses to Scotland; other driving, building and tree-felling jobs in Suffolk until retirement; pig killing; marriage and thoughts on marrying young; seaside holidays, yachting on the Norfolk Broads; songs and pub singing; step dancing; organisation of singing session, order, audience participation, women and children in pubs; favourite songs; local singers; learning songs; song ownership; modern pub singing; payment for singing. Concludes on tape LAVC/SRE/A374r.
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9.5cm/sec. High recording level. Adjusted on AC copy.
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