Sound Recording, Suffolk

Description

Percy Webb, recorded at home in Tunstall Common; talks about Army life (pay, food) whilst in India; experiences of World War One (where stationed, being shelled/gassed, trenches, leave, Armistice, injuries, on board a hospital ship, further hospitalisation in Britain, Catterick garrison); family, mother and father, six siblings; farm work and horseman's job after the war; houses lived in; marriage and children; general health. Singing at school, church choir; pub singing - organisation, repertoire, audience, musicians; step dancing; learning songs; repertoire; other local singers; importance of memory/memorisation; audience participation; singing at Loughborough [?Folk Festival]; singing whilst working; choice of songs; favourite songs; radio appearances; the song 'Old Shep' and listeners' responses; quality of singing, nervousness and audience reactions; singing humorous and bawdy songs; piano playing and music, variation in tunes and the spoiling of old songs; reading/writing music; education; working on farms with horses - ploughing, haymaking, brasses, horse breaking, mechanisation. Conclusion of session which starts on tape LAVC/SRE/A379r. 52 of 79.

Metadata

Identifier rqgphzv1
IRN 414431
Class Mark LAVC/SRE/A380r
Level Item
Type of Record Archives - ISAD(G)
Peristent Link http://prototype1.library.leeds.ac.uk/rqgphzv1
Collection(s) Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
Category Archive
Parent Record Audiotape Sound Recordings
Creator(s) Dunn, Ginette
Date 19 July 1974
Size and Medium 1 x 12.7cm open reel spool, Duration: 63' 42".

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