Sound Recording, Suffolk

Description

Percy Ling, recorded at home in Snape; talks about singing at the Golden Key pub in Snape, and meeting his future wife there; wife's family; segregation of men and women in the pub; attitude to women in pubs; PL's sons and daughters; poaching pheasants and rabbits; mother's cooking - bread, rabbit pie; Harvest Frolics at Iken - food and drink, singing (competitions) for farm workers; living on a farm on the estate of Lord Ullswater; Harvests Frolic at Blaxhall; [severe distortion at this point in the tape - interview inaudible]; farm work; PL's year of birth; farms lived on, father's job; PL's wife - children born at home; comments on himself as a singer, the songs he sings, other singers, father and mother; discusses the songs he knows. [Tape boxed undated. Probably a continuation of tape LAVC/SRE/A392r.] 65 of 79.

Metadata

Identifier hz8hr14d
IRN 414444
Class Mark LAVC/SRE/A393r
Level Item
Type of Record Archives - ISAD(G)
Peristent Link http://prototype1.library.leeds.ac.uk/hz8hr14d
Collection(s) Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
Category Archive
Parent Record Audiotape Sound Recordings
Creator(s) Dunn, Ginette
Date 16 November 1974
Size and Medium 1 x 12.7cm open reel spool, Duration: 34' 00".

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