Sound Recordings, Oxfordshire
Description
Wilf Walton [daughter also present], recorded in Adderbury; recites texts of a number of unidentified poems/monologues and songs; daughter talks about her father acting in local productions of 'The Mirror of Souls' and 'How Time Flies'. [Tr. 2] Male informant [? Wilf Walton], recorded in Adderbury, talks about his schooling and the village school master; leaving school at thirteen; working in village grocer's shop; apprentice boot maker in Banbury for three years; father a cobbler in Adderbury; informant's other work in insurance, then as a newsagent in the mid-1940s; comments on class/population changes in the village; welfare and the workhouse; Scottish billet in the village during World War One; comment on Janet Blunt. [Tr. 1] 3 of 7.
Metadata
| Identifier | phgxmnnb |
| IRN | 414375 |
| Class Mark | LAVC/SRE/A324r |
| Level | Item |
| Type of Record | Archives - ISAD(G) |
| Peristent Link | http://prototype1.library.leeds.ac.uk/phgxmnnb |
| Collection(s) | Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture |
| Category | Archive |
| Parent Record | Audiotape Sound Recordings |
| Creator(s) | Pickering, Michael J |
| Date | September/October 1973 |
| Size and Medium | 1 x 12.7cm open reel spool, Duration: 72' 27". |