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Sound Recording, Staffordshire

Archive Item: LAVC/SRE/A861

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Type of record: Archive

Title: Sound Recording, Staffordshire

Level: Item

Classmark: LAVC/SRE/A861

Creator(s): Higgs, Judith

Site Location(s): Subject - Walsall Wood, Staffordshire, England, United Kingdom( 52.6268, -1.93165 )

Date(s): March 1973

Size and medium: 1 audiocassette.; Duration: 25' 52".

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/414912

Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture

Description

[Announcement, made by collector's mother, a nurse visiting the informant]; Richard Mills and his wife recorded in Walsall Wood; Mr. Mills sings 'The Old Folks Jim', 'A Lady in Hospital' and 'I'm Following in Father's Footsteps'; Mrs. Mills relates an anecdote about a pig; Mr. Mills talks about drinking and singing in the Royal Oak pub [?in Stonnall]; refers to local people living in Stonnall; working as a navvy at Streetly; fire watching during World War Two; sings fragment of [ 'Lord Roberts and Kitchener']; having a robin's breakfast at school in Walsall; working in a [coal] pit and brickyard [? Brick and Tile Company].


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