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Sound Recordings, West Yorkshire and Essex

Archive Item: LAVC/SRE/A778r

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Type of record: Archive

Title: Sound Recordings, West Yorkshire and Essex

Level: Item

Classmark: LAVC/SRE/A778r

Creator(s): Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009); Berntsen, Howard N

Site Location(s): Subject - Wibsey, Bradford, West Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom( 53.7678, -1.78114 ); Subject - Tiptree, Colchester, Essex, England, United Kingdom( 51.813, 0.75737 ); Subject - Thornton, West Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom( 53.7833, -1.85 )

Date(s): [1950s-1960s]

Size and medium: 1 x 17.8cm open reel spool; Duration: 50' 28".

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/414829

Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture

Description

Irvine Brooksbank, recorded in Thornton in May 1957; talks about Thornton village; anecdotes re. local people; quarryworkers (including his father); family's connection with the village; family nicknames; Chapel singing and the place of the chapel in village life; music making at home; Thornton pubs; Thornton Tide (Feast/Fair); also visited Clayton and [location unidentified] Tides; Manningham and other local Tides; Wibsey Horse Fair; holidays; Fair sizes and timings; recent Spring Tide in Thornton; agitators at fairs, including George Drake. [Tr. 3]


[Collector announcement]; Ted Hull, recorded in Tiptree; talks about the village; its reputation for smuggling in the past; local fruit-growing and jam-making industry; decline in number of smallholdings; rising costs; increase in farm sizes; agricultural subsidies; strawberry-growing, cultivation, crops and picking, varieties, diseases; seed-growing and locations/soil types; farm mechanisation; farming with horses; Shire horses; use of steam engines and steam plough on the land; compares ploughing with tractors; animal pests; planting by hand; attitudes of older generation to mechanisation. [Tr. 4]

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Physical and technical conditions

19cm/sec. Low recording level on Tiptree interview. This is a copy recording, taken from a small Phillips reel.

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