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Sound Recording, North Yorkshire

Archive Item: LAVC/SRE/A438r

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Type of record: Archive

Title: Sound Recording, North Yorkshire

Level: Item

Classmark: LAVC/SRE/A438r

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: 21' 37".

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/414489

Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture

Description

Bill Stomper, recorded at home in Rosedale Abbey; talks about the village, changes and loss of community spirit; harvest suppers and singing; dialect songs; favourite songs; Fred Linley; Arthur Champion; recollects local miners, the effect of the Depression and the closure of a local [?potash] mine in 1928; anecdotes re. old mining characters; Major John Fairfax-Blakeborough and his local knowledge; closure of Rosedale mine.


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

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