Sound Recordings, West Sussex and London

Description

George Belton, recorded at home in Birdham; relates biographical details - birthplace in Surrey, schooling, farm work including land work, milking cows and working with horses; childhood memories of growing up in Charnwood ; Smith Gifts (local wealthy man leaving gifts for villages, according to how he was treated by them when dressed as a homeless person); father's farming, living in a tied cottage; discusses parents whilst looking at photographs of them; grandfather playing the fiddle; family sing songs (hymns); sing, say, or pay game with his father; schooling; father ploughing - describes types of plough; brothers and sisters; school clothes; jobs before school each morning; work as a carter boy, aged 15-16; explains different roles of the carter and carter boy; carter/carter boy jobs advertised in the paper; decline in the use of farm horses, c. 1950s; farmwork at Madehurst. [Tr. 4] George Belton, recorded in the Rising Sun pub in Catford, London; sings 'Jim the Carter Lad', 'If Those Lips Could Only Speak', 'The Mixed Up Old Man', 'The Old Rustic Bridge', 'The Bold Fisherman' and 'The Rest of the Day's Your Own'. [Tr. 1]. Concludes on tape LAVC/SRE/A354r. 25 of 79.

Metadata

Identifier lxvj5vsg
IRN 414404
Class Mark LAVC/SRE/A353r
Level Item
Type of Record Archives - ISAD(G)
Peristent Link http://prototype1.library.leeds.ac.uk/lxvj5vsg
Collection(s) Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
Category Archive
Parent Record Audiotape Sound Recordings
Creator(s) Dunn, Ginette
Date 21 May 1974
Size and Medium 1 x 12.7cm open reel spool, Duration: 59' 10".

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