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Sound Recording, North Yorkshire

Archive Item: LAVC/SRE/A459r

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Type of record: Archive

Title: Sound Recording, North Yorkshire

Level: Item

Classmark: LAVC/SRE/A459r

Creator(s): Sullivan, Keith Frederick

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

Date(s): 29 November 1976

Size and medium: 1 x 12.7cm open reel spool; Duration: 90' 23".

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/414510

Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture

Description

[Collector announcement]; Sid Cornfirth [and family], recorded at home in Ugthorpe; talks about Mrs. Cornfirth playing quoits; Ugthorpe quoits teams and the game's popularity; singing, singers and songs at quoit club socials; the Black Bull pub and old village pubs; SC shepherding at Yarm; local sheep breeds/breeding; playing quoits, post-match singing; shove halfpenny; the White family and Gallon family; village community and changes - religion and divisions; women's involvement in the quoit club socials; wife's organ playing; describes the Quoits Supper - proceedings, filling the cup, order of singing, songs and singers; SC's memories of his father winning quoits prizes; the future of quoits playing and singing in the village; young players, teams, maintenance of the pitches; other village pitches/clubs; describes the composition of the quoit pitch, and the type of clay used; handicaps; attitude of the publican to use of the pub after matches; membership of the quoits club and
subscriptions; daughter's employment; SC's shepherding work, grazing sheep on the North York Moors; Lord Normanby (estate owner); local Hunt socials.


Talk of the local Hunt and hunting continued; SC's duties as a shepherd, including sheep marks; decline in sheep numbers on the Moors; local sheep breeds; sheep shearing; sheep dog; sheep health and vaccinations; employment/working life, training in farm work; decline in agricultural labour and increased mechanisation; biographical details.


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

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