Sound Recording, North Yorkshire

Description

Bill Stomper, recorded at home in Rosedale Abbey; talks about the village, changes and loss of community spirit; harvest suppers and singing; dialect songs; favourite songs; Fred Linley; Arthur Champion; recollects local miners, the effect of the Depression and the closure of a local [?potash] mine in 1928; anecdotes re. old mining characters; Major John Fairfax-Blakeborough and his local knowledge; closure of Rosedale mine. 31 of 68.

Metadata

Identifier blbx784z
IRN 414489
Class Mark LAVC/SRE/A438r
Level Item
Type of Record Archives - ISAD(G)
Peristent Link http://prototype1.library.leeds.ac.uk/blbx784z
Collection(s) Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
Category Archive
Parent Record Audiotape Sound Recordings
Creator(s) Sullivan, Keith Frederick
Date 2 April 1976
Size and Medium 1 x 12.7cm open reel spool, Duration: 21' 37".

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