Sound Recording, Derbyshire
Description
Local BBC Radio broadcast, entitled 'Owd Loscoe' [produced by ?Radio Nottingham, or ?Radio Derby]; [Announcement]; Billy Bellfield, recorded in Holbrook; talks about life at the end of the nineteenth century in the Derbyshire mining village of Loscoe; his job as village postmaster; job opportunities in mining, hosiery manufacture and engineering; working in the pit, aged twelve (as a gang boy, with pit ponies); miner until 1914; working hours, pay; box lamps; strikes; conditions; soup kitchens and coal picking; anecdotes about village characters; village water supply; games and entertainment; sports; children's games; pigeon racing; village pubs; barrel organs/organ grinders [recording played of the tune 'Dolly Gray']; miners washing in pubs; food; village life/community spirit (anecdote); mine accidents, explosions, introduction of safety lamps; local Squire; village school; Sunday School.
Metadata
| Identifier | s74ql1rq |
| IRN | 414663 |
| Class Mark | LAVC/SRE/A612r |
| Level | Item |
| Type of Record | Archives - ISAD(G) |
| Peristent Link | http://prototype1.library.leeds.ac.uk/s74ql1rq |
| Collection(s) | Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture |
| Category | Archive |
| Parent Record | Audiotape Sound Recordings |
| Creator(s) | BBC |
| Date | [1970-1979] |
| Size and Medium | 1 x 12.7cm open reel spool, Duration: 27' 15". |