Sound Recordings, Suffolk
Details
Type of record: Archive
Title: Sound Recordings, Suffolk
Classmark: LAVC/SRE/A643r
Creator(s): Evans, George Ewart (1909-1988)
Site Location(s): Subject - Woodbridge, Suffolk, England, United Kingdom( 52.0933, 1.32042 ); Subject - Brandeston, Suffolk, England, United Kingdom( 52.1974, 1.28939 )
Date(s): [1960s]
Size and medium: 1 x 12.7cm open reel spool; Duration: 19' 22".
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/414694
Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
Description
James Knights of Woodbridge [?recorded in 1968] talks about Suffolk and Norfolk men taking seasonal jobs in Burton upon Trent, in October after the harvest; describes work and conditions in the malthouse, turning and baking the malt; JK's singing and learning through his sister; lodgings in Burton; sings 'Curly Williams' and [unidentified]. [Tr. 1]
Hector Moore of Brandeston [?recorded in 1968] talks about life in the 1930s, and in particular recollects the Christmas of 1930 in Kettleburghand catching sparrows for Christmas dinner; also remembers a man and his children returning by foot from Burton, where the father had been working in a malthouse. [Tr. 2]
Provenance
These interviews are also on tape LAVC/SRE/A642r.
Access and usage
Reproduction
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Physical and technical conditions
9.5cm/sec. Drop-out and print-through audible.
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