Sound Recording, Suffolk
Details
Type of record: Archive
Title: Sound Recording, Suffolk
Classmark: LAVC/SRE/A376r
Creator(s): Dunn, Ginette
Site Location(s): Subject - Spexhall, Suffolk, England, United Kingdom( 52.3684, 1.4926 )
Date(s): 12 September 1974
Size and medium: 1 x 12.7cm open reel spool; Duration: 63' 52".
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/414427
Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
Description
Horace White, recorded at home in Spexhall; talks about the village pub; the Suffolk feudal system; World War One; working life, including fishing in Fraserburgh (Aberdeenshire), local council in Suffolk, road maintenance; East coast fishing; local workhouses; labour politics; grandfather; Suffolk dialect - high-lows (type of boot); reference to Mr. Evans [?George Ewart Evans] and local history; influence of church; dialect expressions; modern medicine; living in Britain.
Returning to Britain after World War One; pub singing and the giving of order; opening hours and the effect of the Defence of the Realm Act; uncle, trading at pubs; pub games - quoits; drink and its effects; Quoit Dinner; uncles; quoits league; thoughts on local pubs; women in pubs and use of the best room; Foresters and Oddfellows clubs, also Old Timers [similar to a Friendly Society]; wages, cost of living after World War One; Wage Bill; women in pubs; nicknames; village life. Concludes on tape LAVC/SRE/A377r.
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Physical and technical conditions
9.5cm/sec. High recording level. Adjusted on AC copy. Tape speed slows towards the end of each track.
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