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Sound Recording, North Yorkshire

Archive Item: LAVC/SRE/A440r

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Type of record: Archive

Title: Sound Recording, North Yorkshire

Level: Item

Classmark: LAVC/SRE/A440r

Creator(s): Sullivan, Keith Frederick

Site Location(s): Subject - Ugthorpe, North Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom( 54.4903, -0.77531 )

Date(s): 8 September 1976

Size and medium: 1 x 12.7cm open reel spool; Duration: 59' 58".

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/414491

Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture

Description

[Collector announcement]; Tommy Gallon, recorded at home in Ugthorpe; talks about pub singing - starting, joining in, songs sung, time, landlord, changes and non-locals; learning songs; cycling to pubs; father's songs; other local singers and choir.


Sings 'The Faithful Sailor Boy' [two attempts], 'Will You Still Love Me When I am Old?', 'The Ship that Never Returned' and 'Be Kind to Your Parents'; talks about quoits - matches, teams, equipment, local league, history of the game; wartime and the Home Guard; agricultural shows and competitions; farm work from the age of fourteen; quoits league - teams, quality of players; decline in farming employment; size of farms; local schools; TG's farm - land and stock; parents' tenant farm; local estate and the amalgamation of smaller farm units.


33 of 68.

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Physical and technical conditions

?Copy tape. 9.5cm/sec. Very low recording level. Parts barely audible. Adjusted on AC copy.

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