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Sound Recording, North Lincolnshire

Archive Item: LAVC/SRE/A558r

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Type of record: Archive

Title: Sound Recording, North Lincolnshire

Level: Item

Classmark: LAVC/SRE/A558r

Creator(s): Haldenby, Cynthia

Site Location(s): Subject - Barton-upon-Humber, Lincolnshire, England, United Kingdom( 53.6891, -0.44377 ); Subject - Winterton, Lincolnshire, England, United Kingdom( 53.655, -0.59885 )

Date(s): 1958

Size and medium: 1 x 7.6cm open reel spool; Duration: 18' 42".

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/414609

Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture

Description

George Codd [continued from tape LAVC/SRE/A557r], recorded in Barton-upon-Humber; talks about the extent of his commercial sailing experience; preference for river over canal work; racing to deliver cargoes; preference for working close to home; types of loads carried; working with the river tides; running aground; shifting nature of the river (channels and sandbanks); waiting for the flood tide; river tides - neap, spring (each with ebb and flood tide); the River Trent. [Tr. 1]. Track Two of the tape.


Harry Hill, recorded in Winterton, gives biographical details of his childhood; schooling and errand boy at the age of ten; trading eggs and butter; buttermaking; farm work - pitching potatoes and making bands, pulling beans; work as a doctor's groom; bricklaying and farm buildings - importance of a brick floor in a cow stall; retirement. [Tr. 2]. Track One of the tape.


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