Sound Recordings, North Yorkshire

Description

Male, recorded in Filey in 1962 [date when this copy tape made not known]; recites the dialect poem, 'Runaway Wedding'; relates the mouse in beer vat folk tale; relates other stories (football team with player short); lists (nick)names of Filey fishermen. [Tr. 1] Male, recorded in Filey; talks about fishing nets (materials); catching salmon with drift nets in keel boats; catching a three-ton whale; the price of fish/crabs; experience of World War One, with the Navy aboard the Tranter (two sea battles). [Tr. 2] Male, recorded in Filey; talks about baiting fishing lines in bait houses (using mussels, whelks); inshore fishing; labouring work at Butlin's holiday camp; joining the Navy in 1915 (lists places stationed); thoughts on smoking and health; job as tent erector on Filey beach; food - Sunday dinners as a child (suet dumplings), bread and treacle breakfasts. [Tr. 3] Male, recorded in Filey; talks about farm work - ploughing, grooming and feeding horses, milking cows by hand, exercising horses during bad weather; harvest time - tying sheaves, thoughts on mechanisation. Male continues with talk about farm work - ploughing, harrowing, agricultural wages; rabbiting with ferrets; work as a shepherd up to World War One; working life; threshing and the use of a frail; wages; gleaning; thoughts on working conditions; harrowing and corn drilling, leading horses; ploughing; pig keeping; turnip cutting; sheep washing and shearing; sheep driving to Malton market. [Tr. 4] Male, recorded in Filey; talks about Filey boats collecting coal from Hartlepool; price of coal; thoughts on financial support for children and old aged pensioners; pig keeping; thoughts on income differentials; job as butcher in York. [Tr. 5] Male, recorded in Filey; talks about going to sea as a child; collecting bait (limpets) aged eleven, with his mother; the Filey boat Maria collecting coal from Hartlepool; experiences at sea; reference to Lloyd George. [Tr. 6]. This recording concludes on tape LAVC/SRE/A566r. 7 of 10.

Metadata

Identifier db9lprtn
IRN 414616
Class Mark LAVC/SRE/A565r
Level Item
Type of Record Archives - ISAD(G)
Peristent Link http://prototype1.library.leeds.ac.uk/db9lprtn
Collection(s) Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
Category Archive
Parent Record Audiotape Sound Recordings
Creator(s) Widdowson, John D A
Date [Mid-1960s]
Size and Medium 1 x 14.6cm open reel spool, Duration: 96' 26".

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