Sound Recording, Derbyshire
Details
Type of record: Archive
Title: Sound Recording, Derbyshire
Classmark: LAVC/SRE/A612r
Creator(s): BBC
Site Location(s): Subject - Loscoe, Derbyshire, England, United Kingdom ( 53.0249, -1.38791 )
Date(s): [1970-1979]
Size and medium: 1 x 12.7cm open reel spool; Duration: 27' 15".
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/414663
Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
Description
Local BBC Radio broadcast, entitled 'Owd Loscoe' [produced by ?Radio Nottingham, or ?Radio Derby]; [Announcement]; Billy Bellfield, recorded in Holbrook; talks about life at the end of the nineteenth century in the Derbyshire mining village of Loscoe; his job as village postmaster; job opportunities in mining, hosiery manufacture and engineering; working in the pit, aged twelve (as a gang boy, with pit ponies); miner until 1914; working hours, pay; box lamps; strikes; conditions; soup kitchens and coal picking; anecdotes about village characters; village water supply; games and entertainment; sports; children's games; pigeon racing; village pubs; barrel organs/organ grinders [recording played of the tune 'Dolly Gray']; miners washing in pubs; food; village life/community spirit (anecdote); mine accidents, explosions, introduction of safety lamps; local Squire; village school; Sunday School.
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9.5cm/sec.
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