Sound Recordings, Suffolk
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Type of record: Archive
Title: Sound Recordings, Suffolk
Classmark: LAVC/SRE/A392r
Creator(s): Dunn, Ginette
Site Location(s): Subject - Blaxhall, East Suffolk, England, United Kingdom( 52.161, 1.4619 ); Subject - Snape, Suffolk, England, United Kingdom( 52.171, 1.50047 )
Date(s): November 1974
Size and medium: 1 x 12.7cm open reel spool; Duration: 86' 13".
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/414443
Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
Description
Percy Ling, recorded at home in Snape on the 2 November 1974; talks about Copper Kettle competitions - singing competition in Snape, first prize a copper kettle, judged by the audience; PL winning this competition; biographical details; father's job as a farm labourer; family; learning songs; grandfather; PL's relation to Cyril Poacher; pub singsongs; Harvest Frolics; singing competitions (one penny prize); stone picking; farm work; working at Snape Maltings; marriage; work at local aerodrome; estate work - rabbiting, ferreting; work as a shepherd; the Ling family and PL's relation to Lenny Savage; song ownership; repertoire; Percy Webb; the Ship Inn, Blaxhall, and the segregation of women; women singing with men; comments on local singers; favourite songs; songs learned from Gypsy Traveller communities; singing/dancing in the Ship Inn; repertoire and learning songs; comments on Bob Hart and Percy Webb; lists songs he knows; singing competitions with Cyril Poacher; fights between villages;
other activities at the Ship (ten-pin bowling, quoits, step dancing, the Candlestick Dance); comments on local pubs, past and present; the need for a singing licence. [Tr. 2]
Percy Ling, recorded at home [?on the 16 November 1974], comments on various songs, including 'Home Town in Texas', 'Old Farmer's Servant'; sings 'Queen of My Heart', 'A Group of Young Squaddies' [won Copper Kettle competition singing this], part of 'If I Were a Blackbird'and 'Underneath the Apron'; talks about a stone that grew, Stone Farm, Blaxhall; favourite songs and comments on Bob Hart; working as a cook in the Royal Air Force, in Horsham (Surrey) and Woodbridge (Suffolk) - never went overseas, due to Hiroshima and Nagasaki; Bob Scarce and songs PL wanted/learned from him; discusses the song 'The Lobster'; comments on his sons' country and western music; singing to his children; the Ling family and singing - all musical; transmission of songs; father's job as vermin catcher on an estate farm. [Tr. 1] [Continued on tape LAVC/SRE/A393r.]
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Please note that there may be differences in the terms used to describe the particular communities represented in this collection, many of which have changed over time and may continue to change.
At the time this catalogue was created there are many definitions that identify different cultural and ethnic groups with their varied histories, traditions and associations with a travelling life.
These can include but are not limited to those that have been recognised in UK law as ethnic groups; English and Welsh (Romany) Gypsies, Irish and Scottish Travellers; and non-ethnic groups that consider themselves distinct even if these have not been recognised in UK law, e.g. New Travellers, Showmen and Bargees. Outside of the UK 'Gypsy' may also be considered offensive and ‘Roma’ is often used instead as the universally preferred term although this term also represents a wide range of distinct groups, (e.g. Sinti, Manouche).
It is our intention to respectfully and (where possible) accurately refer to these different communities in the catalogue. For this reason we ask you to note the following with regards to the descriptions in this catalogue that have been based on these current definitions:
1) As many of these definitions have only come into being since the collection was created/1st catalogued, please be aware that original descriptions may not accurately reflect the group to which it refers, (e.g. the word 'Gypsy,' may have been used to describe those now recognised as Irish Travellers/Roma). Therefore it is worth searching under various terms, e.g. 'Romany' and 'Traveller,' to broaden the scope of search results as well as using the alternative historical spellings, 'Gipsy,' 'Gipsie,' or ‘Romani.’
2) Where no original description exists and it is not possible to properly identify a distinct group they will be described as "Gypsy Traveller" (within UK setting), "Roma" for those living/recently originating outside the UK or "Gypsy, Traveller, Roma " for origin/locations unknown. References to any non - ethnic groups will similarly be capitalised to respectfully acknowledge all groups.
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Physical and technical conditions
9.5cm/sec. High recording level. Adjusted on AC copy. Mould on tape pack surface removed 09/2003.
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