Sound Recording, North Yorkshire
Details
Type of record: Archive
Title: Sound Recording, North Yorkshire
Classmark: LAVC/SRE/A442r
Creator(s): Sullivan, Keith Frederick
Site Location(s): Subject - Ugthorpe, North Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom( 54.4903, -0.77531 )
Date(s): 9 September 1976
Size and medium: 1 x 12.7cm open reel spool; Duration: 47' 29".
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/414493
Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
Description
[Collector announcement]; Jacky Gallon, recorded at home in Ugthorpe; talks about his retirement; farm work from the age of fourteen; changes in farming methods, mechanisation; Hiring Fairs; pay; Martinmas Week; hiring pennies; leisure time; Whitby Hiring Fair; sings 'Beside the Bonnie Hawthorn', learned when a child; discuss collector's fieldwork arrangements whilst in the area; songs and song ownership; repertoire; sings part of 'Farmer's Boy'; talk of Ugthorpe village and local families; local employment opportunities, decline in farm labour and increased mechanisation; JG's farm work, also factory work; quoits - describes the rules of the game, scoring and order of play; local team, matches and post-match pub singing - organisation; changes in pubs - hours, prices, customers; farm work with horses.
Collector attempts to get JG to sing; brief general chat about singing with him and his wife.
35 of 68.
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Physical and technical conditions
?Copy tape. 9.5cm/sec. Variable recording level. Parts barely audible due to background hiss. Adjusted on AC copy.
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