Sound Recordings, Staffordshire, West Yorkshire, Cheshire and Oxfordshire
Details
Type of record: Archive
Title: Sound Recordings, Staffordshire, West Yorkshire, Cheshire and Oxfordshire
Classmark: LAVC/SRE/A524r
Creator(s): Harrop, Peter K
Site Location(s): Subject - Bampton, Oxfordshire, England, United Kingdom( 51.7263, -1.54547 ); Subject - Brighouse, West Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom( 53.7032, -1.78428 ); Subject - Midgley, Calderdale, West Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom( 53.7333, -1.96006 ); Subject - Uttoxeter, Staffordshire, England, United Kingdom( 52.8984, -1.86488 ); Subject - Antrobus, Cheshire, England, United Kingdom( 53.3206, -2.52977 )
Date(s): [1970-1979]
Size and medium: 1 x 12.7cm open reel spool; Duration: 124' 39".
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/414575
Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
Description
Compilation of fieldwork recordings (copy extracts) of traditional drama performances, made by a number of different collectors. Includes the Uttoxeter Feather Guizers, the Midgley Pace Eggers, Antrobus Soul-Cakers and the Bampton Mummers. The copies were made from tape and disc originals. Date(s) of copying not known.
Uttoxeter Feather Guizers perform their hero/combat play in Uttoxeter. Original recording made by the BBC [?on 19 December 1946 .] [Tr. 2]; [? Midgley Pace Eggers, recorded in Midgley by the BBC]. [Tr. 3]; [? Midgley Pace Eggers, recorded in Midgley by Doc Rowe]. [Tr. 4]; [? Midgley Pace Eggers/? Brighouse Children's Theatre, recorded in Midgley/ Brighouse]. [Tr. 5]; [? Midgley Pace Eggers, recorded in ?] [Tr. 6]; [? Midgley Pace Eggers, recorded in ?] [Tr. 7]
[? Midgley Pace Eggers, recorded in ?] [Tr. 7]; [? Midgley Pace Eggers, recorded in ?] [Tr. 1]; Antrobus Soul-Cakers[?recorded in Antrobus] [Tr. 2]; male sings [?part of the Antrobus Soul-Cakers' song] [Tr. 3]; male sings Antrobus Soul-Cakers' song, and recites the play [all parts]. [Tr. 4]; male sings [? 'Murphy's Ass']. [Tr. 5]; a member of the Bampton Mummers sings and plays the fiddle, recorded in Bampton in the 1930s by James Madison Carpenter. [Copy of disc copy of original wax cylinder recording.] [Tr. 6]; Bampton Mummers, recorded in Bampton in the 1930s by James Madison Carpenter. [Copy of disc copy of original wax cylinder recording.] [Tr. 7]
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