Sound Recording, North Yorkshire
Details
Type of record: Archive
Title: Sound Recording, North Yorkshire
Classmark: LAVC/SRE/A460r
Creator(s): Sullivan, Keith Frederick
Site Location(s): Subject - Tranmire, North Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom ( 54.4997, -0.839752 ); Subject - Cleethorpes, Lincolnshire, England, United Kingdom( 53.5605, -0.03225 )
Date(s): 29 November 1976
Size and medium: 1 x 12.7cm open reel spool; Duration: 58' 17".
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/414511
Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
Description
[Collector announcement]; Jim Wilkinson, recorded at home in Tranmire; gives biographical details and talks about his early singing experiences in the area; working life - forestry, farming and for a potash mining company; local Christmas traditions; thoughts on his current workplace (potash mining) and the union, working conditions, company details ( Cleveland Potash Limited), and describes shift work; describes his farm and other previous jobs; JW's family; [last ten minutes of this side inaudible due to sticky tape squeal].
[First fourteen minutes inaudible due to sticky tape squeal]; JW talks about singing at Stockton Folk Club; George Davies' version of 'Farmer's Boy' [intermittent tape squeal]; sings 'T' Owd Sow'; talks about Cleethorpes Folk Festival; discusses local singers; sings 'Willie Went to Westerdale' and discusses the words and the man he learned it from; learning songs; the singer George White. Continues on tapes LAVC/SRE/A461r and LAVC/SRE/A462r.
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Physical and technical conditions
?Copy tape. 9.5cm/sec. Very low recording level. Adjusted on AC copy.
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