Sound Recordings, Derbyshire
Details
Type of record: Archive
Title: Sound Recordings, Derbyshire
Classmark: LAVC/SRE/A844r
Creator(s): Siporin, Rae Lee
Site Location(s): Subject - Burbage, High Peak, Derbyshire, England, United Kingdom( 53.25, -1.9333 ); Subject - Bamford, High Peak, Derbyshire, England, United Kingdom( 53.3482, -1.68922 ); Subject - Derwent, Derbyshire, England, United Kingdom( 53.4001, -1.74325 )
Date(s): 1965
Size and medium: 1 x 10cm open reel spool; Duration: 44' 18".
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/414895
Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
Description
An interview recorded in the farmhouse of William Eliot. Mr. Eliot talks about the village of Derwent before the building of the Howden, Derwent and Ladybower reservoirs; livestock; local farms; the moorland he owns; land belonging to the National Trust; his home; his mother; the tape machine being used to record him; [gap]; recent boxing match involving Muhammad Ali; livestock and the quality of the local soil; the weather and the winter of 1947; isolation and the distance from Bamford; local transport before buses; carrier's cart to Sheffield; the Dore and Chinley railway line; going to Bamford; gardening; drystone walling; sheep farming; his wife and her help working on the land; playing the violin; more on the boxing match; local postman; travel to/around Mr. Eliot's home. [Tr. 3]
Jim Belfield, recorded in Burbage; talks about his farm, its acreage and the livestock he owns; tractors replacing horses on the farm; Burbage of the past, and changes after the [?Second] war; family connections with the village; first school in the village, paid for by the Duke of Devonshire; local quarries and the transportation of lime by horses to the canal; working life on the farm; Army service during World War One; old Burbagers; sister living in Canada; Mr. Needham (Burbage resident); farming in America; local Dutchman thought to be a spy; German wartime defenses off the coast of France. [Tr. 4]
Provenance
The tape box states that this took place in Bamford, but from what Mr. Eliot says during the interview it is clear he lives five miles from this village. Further information leads to the reasonable conclusion that at the time of the interview he was living in or near the hamlet of Derwent, north-west of Bamford. This was his birthplace. The majority of the original village was abandoned to make way for the flooding of the valley in which it was situated, and the creation of Ladybower Reservoir. This was completed in 1945.
Access and usage
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Physical and technical conditions
9.5cm/sec. Print-through pre-echo audible during Derwent recording. Variable recording speed for Burbage interview.
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