Sound Recording, North Yorkshire
Description
[Collector announcement]; Jacky Gallon, recorded at home in Ugthorpe; talks about his retirement; farm work from the age of fourteen; changes in farming methods, mechanisation; Hiring Fairs; pay; Martinmas Week; hiring pennies; leisure time; Whitby Hiring Fair; sings 'Beside the Bonnie Hawthorn', learned when a child; discuss collector's fieldwork arrangements whilst in the area; songs and song ownership; repertoire; sings part of 'Farmer's Boy'; talk of Ugthorpe village and local families; local employment opportunities, decline in farm labour and increased mechanisation; JG's farm work, also factory work; quoits - describes the rules of the game, scoring and order of play; local team, matches and post-match pub singing - organisation; changes in pubs - hours, prices, customers; farm work with horses. Collector attempts to get JG to sing; brief general chat about singing with him and his wife. 35 of 68.
Metadata
| Identifier | h6jkqtb5 |
| IRN | 414493 |
| Class Mark | LAVC/SRE/A442r |
| Level | Item |
| Type of Record | Archives - ISAD(G) |
| Peristent Link | http://prototype1.library.leeds.ac.uk/h6jkqtb5 |
| Collection(s) | Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture |
| Category | Archive |
| Parent Record | Audiotape Sound Recordings |
| Creator(s) | Sullivan, Keith Frederick |
| Date | 9 September 1976 |
| Size and Medium | 1 x 12.7cm open reel spool, Duration: 47' 29". |