Sound Recording, North Yorkshire
Details
Type of record: Archive
Title: Sound Recording, North Yorkshire
Classmark: LAVC/SRE/A630r
Creator(s): Green, Anthony E (1943-)
Site Location(s): Subject - Danby, North Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom( 54.4661, -0.91073 ); Subject - Goathland, North Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom( 54.4, -0.71954 )
Date(s): 17 August 1973
Size and medium: 1 x 12.7cm open reel spool; Duration: 103' 22".
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/414681
Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
Description
Frank Weatherill , recorded at home in Danby; talks about a local storyteller; tall tales; storytelling as a form of amusement; local legends regarding hammer throwing (example from Lastingham); FW's work as a stonemason; interest in folklore and poetry; recites poems (one written 1971, another a Baron Munchausen story); sending poems as Christmas cards; introduces and reads 'The Story of Fairy Cross Plain'; relates anecdotes connected with the Danby area; talk of terms used in the story, including a name for a type of cupboard (with carvings); talk of the song ? 'Woodbury Hill'.
Frank Weatherill talks about songs and singing, survival and changes (reference to 'The Bonny Hawthorn'); singing with his father; learning to play the fiddle; hearing; supplying musical parts to local brass band; Fryup Free School (reference to a nineteenth century account book); origin of 'The Story of Fairy Cross Plain', and the tale's transmission - FW recites the story from memory; local fairy beliefs and anecdotes; sixpence in butter churn as protection against witches; shapeshifting (hares); the Goathland area and its dialect; talk of FW's dialect and influence of Army service with men from other parts of the country (compares situation within local regiments); differences/similarities in Yorkshire dialects.
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