Sound Recordings, Yorkshire
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Type of record: Archive
Title: Sound Recordings, Yorkshire
Classmark: LAVC/SRE/A772r
Creator(s): Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)
Site Location(s): Subject - Grassington, Craven, North Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom( 54.0714, -1.99822 ); Subject - Tickhill, Doncaster, South Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom( 53.4319, -1.10859 )
Date(s): [1960s]
Size and medium: 1 x 10cm open reel spool; Duration: 27' 28".
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/414823
Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
Description
Oswald Jacques, recorded in Grassington [?in 1963]; [recording takes place in a farm building]; Mr. Jacques describes the parts of a cow stall; talks about cows calving, premature/dead calves; luck stones; geese to prevent picking - premature calving; examines and discusses component parts of a farm cart; talk of sledges to transport brushes and bracken; peat cutting and burning; mowing hay, drying, turning and stacking; labour costs; hiring Irish labourers in the past - reference to hirings in Skipton. [Tr. 7]. Copy of recording which exists on tape LAVC/SRE/A769r.
[Collector announcement, including details of duplicate recording on tape LAVC/SRE/A773r]; male informant, recorded in Tickhill; talks about Tickhill Fair (October) and local [cattle] markets, including Doncaster; cattle breeding; farming equipment, including tip up cart; haymaking and stooking corn; haystacks and potential problems; haystack thatching; cattle and calving; beastings (first milk). [Tr. 8]
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Physical and technical conditions
19cm/sec. Tickhill recording runs fast. Copy with speed adjusted exists on tape LAVC/SRE/A773r.
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