Sound Recordings, North Yorkshire and East Riding of Yorkshire
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Type of record: Archive
Title: Sound Recordings, North Yorkshire and East Riding of Yorkshire
Classmark: LAVC/SRE/A722r
Creator(s): Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)
Site Location(s): Subject - Borrowby, Hambleton, North Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom( 54.2966, -1.34313 ); Subject - Easingwold, Hambleton, North Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom( 54.1201, -1.1939 ); Subject - Gargrave, North Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom( 53.9835, -2.10459 ); Subject - Grassington, Craven, North Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom( 54.0714, -1.99822 ); Subject - Nafferton, East Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom( 54.0212, -0.41262 ); Subject - York, North Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom( 53.9576, -1.08271 ); Subject - Pateley Bridge, North Yorkshire, United Kingdom( 54.0862, -1.75981 ); Subject - Rillington, North Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom( 54.1578, -0.69494 ); Subject - Horton in Ribblesdale, Craven, North Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom( 54.1489, -2.30035 )
Date(s): [1960-1980]
Size and medium: 1 x 12.7cm open reel spool; Duration: 82' 23".
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/414773
Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
Description
Compilation of Survey of English Dialects fieldwork recordings (copies) for Yorkshire locations 6Y9, 11, 13-17, 19-20. The original recordings were made by Stanley Ellis in 1952, 1953 and 1955. The date when this copy tape was made is not known.
[Collector announcement]; Jack Kitson, a retired farmer, recorded at home in Borrowby; talks about farming; haymaking; cutting clover; good/bad seasons; farm sizes; farm horses; working for his father; describes haymaking, processes and changes; working days, aged twenty; family farms; farm horses; beer. [Tr. 7]
[Collector announcement]; John Linsley, a farmer, recorded at home in Rillington; talks about mowing hay; threshing; winnowing; brewhouses and village breweries; agricultural labourers and hiring fairs. [Tr. 8]
[Collector announcement]; Dick Davies, a farmer, recorded at home in Horton in Ribblesdale; talks about pigs and pig breeding, killing and processing; the farming year, with reference to haytime; farm size and stock; the names for sheep at different ages; describes a typical farming day. [Tr. 9]
[Collector announcement]; Oswald Jakes [Jacques], a farmer, recorded at home in Grassington; talks about calving; keeping geese with calving cows; haymaking; haystacks (pikes); agricultural labour and the hiring of Irish men, pre-World War Two; harvest time. [Tr. 10]
[Collector announcement]; Female, recorded at home in Pateley Bridge, describes the process of making bread. [Tr. 11]
[Collector announcement]; John Passman, a painter, recorded at home in Easingwold; relates stories about the Bradley family, including two brothers' discovery of ?treasure trove whilst working on the building of Ampleforth College; also talks about pig keeping; gleaning; and how people live(d). [Tr. 12]
[Announcement]; Tom Bradley, recorded in Gargrave; talks about his working life, including carting and the railway. [Tr. 13]
[Collector announcement]; Joe ?Scafe, a retired carter, recorded in York. [Not possible to distinguish the speaker's words, due to distortion caused by a high recording level on the original.] [Tr. 14]
[Collector announcement]; Cyril Davison, farmer and quarryman, recorded at home in Nafferton; talks about the local choir; work with farm horses; horse ploughing (matches); tractor ploughing; hedge laying; haymaking and building haystacks. [Tr. 15]
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Physical and technical conditions
9.5cm/sec. Copy tape. High recording level. Distortion of speakers' voices.
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