Sound Recording, North Yorkshire
Description
[Collector announcement]; Will White, recorded at home in Ugthorpe; talks about singing; living at the Black Bull pub; pub singing; biographical details; running the pub with his wife; also mixed farming - crops, livestock, size of farm; first farm job, aged thirteen - pay and conditions, being hired/kept on; building work during wartime; hirings; mining, steelworks and pay compared with farm wages; farm work 1917-1918; Catholicism - changes, teachings, mother's work as a schoolteacher, fasting before Mass, relaxation of teachings; local Catholics; Irish farm workers locally; WW attempting to join the Army in 1917/1918; sings fragments of a number of unidentified songs; importance of practise; choral singing and changes in voice; singing with the family when younger. WW [?or his wife] plays the piano and sings two unidentified songs; talks about local concerts; singing at work (milking cows); discusses the song 'The Vacant Chair', other songs/tunes; farming songs - 'Farmer's Boy', sings fragment of 'All Jolly Fellows that Follow the Plough'; remembering songs; recites first verse to 'Farmer's Boy'; talks of social changes - clothing/fashion, pubs; pub singing; sings grandfather's song, 'Betsy Baker', and talks about him singing. 32 of 68.
Metadata
| Identifier | qs22zjqf |
| IRN | 414490 |
| Class Mark | LAVC/SRE/A439r |
| Level | Item |
| Type of Record | Archives - ISAD(G) |
| Peristent Link | http://prototype1.library.leeds.ac.uk/qs22zjqf |
| Collection(s) | Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture |
| Category | Archive |
| Parent Record | Audiotape Sound Recordings |
| Creator(s) | Sullivan, Keith Frederick |
| Date | 8 September 1976 |
| Size and Medium | 1 x 12.7cm open reel spool, Duration: 75' 54". |