Sound Recording, Redcar and Cleveland
Details
Type of record: Archive
Title: Sound Recording, Redcar and Cleveland
Classmark: LAVC/SRE/A427r
Creator(s): Sullivan, Keith Frederick
Site Location(s): Subject - Wilton, Redcar and Cleveland, England, United Kingdom( 54.5667, -1.1 )
Date(s): 8 February 1976
Size and medium: 1 x 12.7cm open reel spool; Duration: 69' 12".
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/414478
Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
Description
[Collector announcement]; William Hart, recorded at home in Wilton; sings [ 'Mary Ann Malone']; talks about his song repertoire; sings 'The Day I Left Old Ireland', 'Patsy Fagan' and 'Where Did You Get that Hat?'; talk of pubs, beer/ale and prices, the Half Moon pub in Lazenby, lists other freehouses, travellers from the brewery; walking and then bus to the pub - first bus in 1918 [daughter contributes], fares compared; village entertainment - whist drives; other singers, pub singing; sings 'Way Down in Calcutta' [ 'Sweet Avelina']; daughter talks about her mother; WH talks about going to church at Redcar with his wife, and fasting; courting his wife.
Discussion of working men's club; changes on the Kirkleatham Estate - recollects the balls held in the past, changes in buildings, woods, roads and paths; changes in Middlesbrough; father's farm work in Durham; WH's working life - driving steamroller, mining, farming; describes farm duties as milk boy, hours of work, food and mealtimes, work with horses; horseman's duties; head horseman at a farm in Hilton; singing as entertainment (also whilst working); horseman's duties described, including ploughing, sowing, harvesting and threshing; resting fields; modern farming methods; good/bad farmers to work for; Catholic farm at Richmond; wife's Catholicism; health.
20 of 68.
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Physical and technical conditions
?Copy tape. 9.5cm/sec. Variable recording level. Some conversation difficult to hear. Adjusted on AC copy.
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