Sound Recordings, Cheshire
Details
Type of record: Archive
Title: Sound Recordings, Cheshire
Classmark: LAVC/SRE/A500r
Creator(s): Harrop, Peter K
Site Location(s): Subject - Antrobus, Cheshire, England, United Kingdom( 53.3206, -2.52977 ); Subject - Acton Bridge, Cheshire, England, United Kingdom( 53.2734, -2.60754 ); Subject - Little Leigh, Cheshire, England, United Kingdom( 53.2851, -2.5803 )
Date(s): 31 October 1977
Size and medium: 1 x 12.7cm open reel spool; Duration: 71' 40".
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/414551
Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
Description
Antrobus Soul-Cakers perform their soul-caking play, outside the Holly Bush pub, Little Leigh. Very low recording level. Traffic noise obscures the speakers' voices on occasion. [Tr. 1]
Antrobus Soul-Cakers perform their soul-caking play in the Maypole pub, Acton Bridge. [Tr. 2]
Antrobus Soul-Cakers perform their soul-caking play in the Hazel Pear pub, Acton Bridge. [Tr. 3]
Discussion between Peter Harrop, Graham Seal and Maureen Seal, recorded in a car travelling to Leeds, following a fieldwork trip to Cheshire to record the Antrobus Soul-Cakers [see Trs. 1-3 above]. All present their recollections of what happened, and describe where the recordings were made, their feelings at the time and the discussions that took place regarding the soul-cakers (including with the publican of the Wheatsheaf pub in Antrobus, and reference also to Susan Pattison); each describes the play's characters and the costumes worn; individual locations and comments on each performance in Little Leigh and Acton Bridge, with thoughts on the audiences, atmosphere, people's attitudes to the soul-cakers, conversations held with some of the performers regarding performance locations and rehearsals, humour, the horse [character]. [Tr. 4]
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Physical and technical conditions
19cm/sec and 4.75cm/sec. Variable recording level and playback speed. Adjusted on AC copy.
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