Sound Recordings, Suffolk

Description

Bessie Hammond, recorded at home in Blaxhall on the 2 October 1974; talks about where she learned the songs she sings - radio, singing at work; singing at an old people's club; learning songs at school, musical ability and its recognition; early childhood spent in Yorkshire; meeting future husband, and his work in medical corps during World War One; their children; husband's family; life in Blaxhall; food; Priscilla Savage; the Ship Inn; seasonal lodgers with BH; Harvest Frolic; playing quoits and Quoits Supper; concerts and singing; singing at the Ship Inn; the Candlestick Dance; favourite songs/singers; old people's club; Bob Scarce; Priscilla Savage; favourite types of song; song and music ownership; melodeon player, Fred Pearce; [step] dancing; other singers; Priscilla Savage; songs sung at school. Sings 'Broken Doll', one verse of 'If Those Lips Could Only Speak', 'Yours Till the Stars Lose Their Glory' [?part], 'If You Ever Go Across the Sea to Ireland' and 'Souvenirs'. [Tr. 1] Bessie Hammond, recorded at home on the 30 October 1974, talks about her husband and his work as a horseman; the Ship Inn at Blaxhall and singers, songs sung and repertoires of the singers (including Bessie Ling); BH's singing and learning songs; the pub and drinking; village life and her involvement; mining accidents; sings 'Don't Go Down the Mine Dad'; further talk of mining and pit disasters [informant from a mining family]; sings 'In the Heart of Lancashire' [learned in Blackpool]; sings 'If I Had My Way'; talks of working in service; sings 'Springtime in the Rockies'; types of song (preferences). [Tr. 2] 58 of 79.

Metadata

Identifier kqvqdlgc
IRN 414437
Class Mark LAVC/SRE/A386r
Level Item
Type of Record Archives - ISAD(G)
Peristent Link http://prototype1.library.leeds.ac.uk/kqvqdlgc
Collection(s) Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
Category Archive
Parent Record Audiotape Sound Recordings
Creator(s) Dunn, Ginette
Date October 1974
Size and Medium 1 x 12.7cm open reel spool, Duration: 82' 32".

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