Sound Recording, Suffolk

Description

Basil Bennett, recorded at home in Snape; talks about learning songs whilst in the Army and the Navy - 'I'm in Love with Two Sweethearts' and 'Farewell My Own True Love'; his and other people's repertoires; parents; singing; father singing after quoits matches; BB singing in pubs at Orford; father's job as a shepherd on the Sudbourne Hall estate; children's jobs on the estate; living in a tied cottage; working with farm horses - ploughing, drilling, harvest; describes the family accommodation; Chapel; hymn singing at home on Sundays; school at Chillesford; joining the Army and experiences of service during World War One; returning to Iken after the war; timber/tree planting jobs locally; courtship; cycling to London - jobs whilst there; pub landlord in Snape; mother's family (the Lings from Kettleburgh); religion; wine/bread making; food eaten as a child; catching rabbits. [Tr. 3] Sings 'A Group of Young Squaddies', 'Travelling on a Lone Train', 'Australian Homestead' [learned from Lenny Savage] and 'The Sailor Boy'; pub singing; British Legion rallies in Felixstowe, and the establishment of a women's section in Blaxhall; sings 'Three Old Ladies Locked in the Lavatory'; [gap]; talks of other singers, Bob Scarceand Dick Woolnough; job as landlord of the Plough pub in Snape - activities, singing, social aspects, darts, pub interior, visits from other villages; Bob Hart; retirement and gardening; sings 'Farmer's Boy', sung at school [BB's sister comments]; new clothes for children at Whitsun; Tunstall Chapel; sings 'The Volunteer Organist'. [Tr. 1] 59 of 79.

Metadata

Identifier m98mmnxg
IRN 414438
Class Mark LAVC/SRE/A387r
Level Item
Type of Record Archives - ISAD(G)
Peristent Link http://prototype1.library.leeds.ac.uk/m98mmnxg
Collection(s) Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
Category Archive
Parent Record Audiotape Sound Recordings
Creator(s) Dunn, Ginette
Date 2 October 1974
Size and Medium 1 x 12.7cm open reel spool, Duration: 92' 55".

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