Sound Recordings, North Yorkshire
Description
Two males in conversation, recorded in Filey in April 1962. [Date when this copy tape made not known.] Reference to local people; fish and chip shops; singing in local pubs; fishing related - nets/lines; boats (?yachting); Newfoundland and cod fishing in the Grand Banks; anecdote re. fishing rights; employment situation; housing; local election - discuss candidates; sea fishing - catches, prices, laying up in March (no fishing). [Tr. 3] Male [possibly recorded at Muston] describes farming techniques - harrowing and rolling a field; agricultural labour; Martinmas hiring; catching and eating sparrows; crow pie; sheep dyke at Muston (sheep washing) - wages (paid by the score); job as street cleaner and mender; talk of local people, shops, blacksmith (describes hooping wheels) - shoeing horses, and childhood recollections of the process; talks of carts/waggons (shaft/pole waggons); changes in the village of Muston; describes the local Meeting Room. [Tr. 4] Male, recorded in Filey; relates anecdotes concerning local people; talks about rabbiting, rat-catching, shooting kittiwakes; stuffed pheasants/ducks (practical jokes); seal skin hats; discusses local dialect and changes in speech when talking to visitors (relates several anecdotes); local storyteller - anecdotes re. oneupmanship. [Tr. 5]. Continues on tape LAVC/SRE/A560r. 1 of 10.
Metadata
| Identifier | gmny3vdv |
| IRN | 414610 |
| Class Mark | LAVC/SRE/A559r |
| Level | Item |
| Type of Record | Archives - ISAD(G) |
| Peristent Link | http://prototype1.library.leeds.ac.uk/gmny3vdv |
| 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: 68' 00". |