Sound Recordings, Derbyshire, Cheshire and Nottingamshire
Details
Type of record: Archive
Title: Sound Recordings, Derbyshire, Cheshire and Nottingamshire
Classmark: LAVC/SRE/A846r
Creator(s): Siporin, Rae Lee
Site Location(s): Subject - Bamford, High Peak, Derbyshire, England, United Kingdom( 53.3482, -1.68922 ); Subject - Cuckney, Bassetlaw, Nottinghamshire, England, United Kingdom( 53.2353, -1.15575 ); Subject - Rainow, Cheshire, England, United Kingdom( 53.2813, -2.0748 ); Subject - Burbage, High Peak, Derbyshire, England, United Kingdom( 53.25, -1.9333 )
Date(s): 1965
Size and medium: 1 x 12.7cm open reel spool; Duration: 51' 15".
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/414897
Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
Description
Charles Swindles, recorded in Bamford; introduces himself and his wife and daughters; talks about Bamford; the River Derwent and the Howden Reservoir, Derwent Reservoir and Ladybower Reservoir; local industry (cotton mill, the Derwent Valley Water Board, Hope Valley Cement Works); local shops; the Parish Church, village activities and clubs. [Tr. 1]
Mr. Jackson, recorded in Rainow; talks about the winter of ?1895, and snow lying in Macclesfield Forest in June/July; local farms; humorous sayings about Rainow and Rainow people; severe winter and affect on the village; local employment, including stone quarries; farming - livestock and dairy; cheesemaking; farm horses; ploughing and directions of landlords; informant's farm; nephew's farm (at Harrop); [collector announcement]. [Tr. 2]
[Collector announcement]; Bill Grinley, recorded in Burbage; talks about his working life; his house; living in Burbage; school; starting work picking lime (in 1898) whilst still at school; work on the railway; names people known in Burbage; women taking in washing; school and the schoolmaster; transporting lime on the railway; wages; work for the local corporation; uncle's farm; haymaking; time spent away from the village; day trips to west/east coast resorts; working with lime during the war; gives examples of old Burbage speech; family names; pub singing and songs. [Tr. 3]
[Collector announcement]; Reuben Shaw [location uncertain; informant formerly of Cuckney], recorded on the 26 May 1965; talks about his youth spent in Cuckney - playing cricket and football, cycle racing, cleaning the bikes of the Duke and Duchess of Portland; informant's job as a joiner; birthplace ( Belph); family; Cuckney village; local cotton mills; local agriculture; undertaker Jim Needham; playing football; the village and its shops and pub; pony riding; [collector announcement]. [Tr. 4]
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Physical and technical conditions
9.5cm/sec. Copy tape. Rainow recording affected by persistent buzzing noise.
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