Sound Recordings, Cambridgeshire
Details
Type of record: Archive
Title: Sound Recordings, Cambridgeshire
Classmark: LAVC/SRE/A676r
Creator(s): Tammivaara, Irmeli
Site Location(s): Subject - Sutton, Cambridgeshire, England, United Kingdom( 52.388, 0.11866 )
Date(s): July 1975
Size and medium: 1 x 12.7cm open reel spool; Duration: 87' 39".
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/414727
Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
Description
[Collector announcement]; Claude Gimbert, recorded in Sutton on the 21 July 1975 [continued from tape LAVC/SRE/A675r]; talks about bell ringing techniques, types of bells, learning to ring, methods, changes, names of methods; organisation - Districts, meetings described; bell ringers' Service. [Tr. 1]
[Collector announcement]; Albert Haddock, recorded [?in a pub] in Sutton on the 21 July 1975; recollects his childhood in the village; talks about water supplies; farming before World War One; Sutton Feast (September/October); Hospital Sunday and Tuesday; Chapel Anniversaries; describes Sunday routine of Chapel and Sunday School attendance; changes to the village; new houses; village shops; local wheelwright; food and food preparation; mother baking in a brick oven.
[Collector announcement]; Albert Haddock talks about ice skating on the Bedford Level ; skating matches (food as prizes); wooden skates; fog; dust storms. [Tr. 2]
[Collector announcement]; Christopher Haddock [Albert Haddock's brother] and Elsie Haddock, recorded at Sutton Gault on the 22 July 1975; talk about larks, partridges and pheasants and the effect of agricultural sprays on their numbers; hand hoeing corn; mowing grass with scythes; the family home; seeing their first motor car, c. 1898; church attendance in Sutton on the day of Queen Victoria's burial (EH talks of a commemorative sixpence); Sutton church; village pubs; Sutton Feast (three days); catching larks with nets (trandling). [Tr. 3]. Continued on tape LAVC/SRE/A677r.
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9.5cm/sec. Copy tape.
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