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Sound Recording, North Yorkshire

Archive Item: LAVC/SRE/A435r

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Type of record: Archive

Title: Sound Recording, North Yorkshire

Level: Item

Classmark: LAVC/SRE/A435r

Creator(s): Sullivan, Keith Frederick

Site Location(s): Subject - Rosedale Abbey, North Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom( 54.3534, -0.8874 )

Date(s): 2 April 1976

Size and medium: 1 x 12.7cm open reel spool; Duration: 47' 54".

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/414486

Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture

Description

[Collector announcement]; Fred Lynley, recorded at home in Rosedale Abbey; talks about miners' cottages; changes in farming methods; peat digging and turf as fuel; local employment; cost of living; learning to sing in the church choir; remembering songs; singing at cricket club social events; sings fragments of 'The Old Rugged Cross' and 'Down in the Fields Where the Buttercups All Grow'; sings 'Forget Me Not'; attempts 'Swale Beautiful Swale'; reference to Ken McDonald, Marie Hart and Joan Ingilby; dialect songs; singing and reading hymns; Methodists and Wesleyans in the Yorkshire Dales; biographical details; recollections of his father; FL's own farm described - livestock and crops, cost of living and effect on farms/farmers; sings fragments of a number of unidentified songs (one identified as 'Thrashing Machine').


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Physical and technical conditions

?Copy tape. 9.5cm/sec. High recording level. Adjusted on AC copy.

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North Yorkshire

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Peat

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