Sound Recording, North Yorkshire
Details
Type of record: Archive
Title: Sound Recording, North Yorkshire
Classmark: LAVC/SRE/A458r
Creator(s): Sullivan, Keith Frederick
Site Location(s): Subject - Ugthorpe, North Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom( 54.4903, -0.77531 )
Date(s): 28 November 1976
Size and medium: 1 x 12.7cm open reel spool; Duration: 46' 41".
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/414509
Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
Description
[Collector announcement]; Walt Spensley, Mrs. Spensley and their son Colin Spensley, recorded in their home in Ugthorpe; talk about playing quoits; the Quoits Supper; young quoit players; the singing and songs at the supper; the history of quoit playing in Ugthorpe, and its popularity among young local people; women's involvement in the supper; Mrs. Spensley's family; Colin Spensley's work as gardener and woodsman, and involvement with his father in forest management; talk of Phil Hales' singing at quoits club socials; young people in the village and entertainment; quoits pitches; recollects past quoits suppers, and those in other villages; George White; women and pubs; village Christmas dinner at the [Black Bull] pub; talks about the Spensley's family home; outsiders and the price of local property; local farms and main landowner; preservation of older buildings/features; local employment opportunities and changing work patterns; Ugthorpe community; WS's work as a woodsman, also
gamekeeper; poaching; estate owners on the [North Yorkshire] Moors; local employment and Teesside.
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Physical and technical conditions
?Copy tape. 9.5cm/sec. Variable recording level. Adjusted on AC copy.
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