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Sound Recording, North Yorkshire

Archive Item: LAVC/SRE/A557r

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Type of record: Archive

Title: Sound Recording, North Yorkshire

Level: Item

Classmark: LAVC/SRE/A557r

Creator(s): Haldenby, Cynthia

Site Location(s): Subject - Barton-upon-Humber, Lincolnshire, England, United Kingdom( 53.6891, -0.44377 )

Date(s): 1958

Size and medium: 1 x 7.6cm open reel spool; Duration: 22' 51".

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/414608

Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture

Description

George Codd, recorded in Barton-upon-Humber; talks about working on commercial freight river boats, the positions he has held and the pay he has received; captaining his own boat; sailing a keel boat; working in partnership with a man form Grimsby.


George Codd talks further about his working career, including shop owning, becoming a coal merchant, boat work for the Danish Bacon Company; casual work; the river and his love of sailing; pride in his work; joke about canal water running uphill to Leeds; talks of working boats and pay, and his inland sailing to Grimsby, Goole, York and Leeds (not registered for sailing at sea). Concludes on tape LAVC/SRE/A558r.


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