Sound Recordings, North Yorkshire and East Riding of Yorkshire

Description

Compilation of Survey of English Dialects fieldwork recordings (copies) for Yorkshire locations 6Y9, 11, 13-17, 19-20. The original recordings were made by Stanley Ellis in 1952, 1953 and 1955. The date when this copy tape was made is not known. [Collector announcement]; Jack Kitson, a retired farmer, recorded at home in Borrowby; talks about farming; haymaking; cutting clover; good/bad seasons; farm sizes; farm horses; working for his father; describes haymaking, processes and changes; working days, aged twenty; family farms; farm horses; beer. [Tr. 7] [Collector announcement]; John Linsley, a farmer, recorded at home in Rillington; talks about mowing hay; threshing; winnowing; brewhouses and village breweries; agricultural labourers and hiring fairs. [Tr. 8] [Collector announcement]; Dick Davies, a farmer, recorded at home in Horton in Ribblesdale; talks about pigs and pig breeding, killing and processing; the farming year, with reference to haytime; farm size and stock; the names for sheep at different ages; describes a typical farming day. [Tr. 9] [Collector announcement]; Oswald Jakes [Jacques], a farmer, recorded at home in Grassington; talks about calving; keeping geese with calving cows; haymaking; haystacks (pikes); agricultural labour and the hiring of Irish men, pre-World War Two; harvest time. [Tr. 10] [Collector announcement]; Female, recorded at home in Pateley Bridge, describes the process of making bread. [Tr. 11] [Collector announcement]; John Passman, a painter, recorded at home in Easingwold; relates stories about the Bradley family, including two brothers' discovery of ?treasure trove whilst working on the building of Ampleforth College; also talks about pig keeping; gleaning; and how people live(d). [Tr. 12] [Announcement]; Tom Bradley, recorded in Gargrave; talks about his working life, including carting and the railway. [Tr. 13] [Collector announcement]; Joe ?Scafe, a retired carter, recorded in York. [Not possible to distinguish the speaker's words, due to distortion caused by a high recording level on the original.] [Tr. 14] [Collector announcement]; Cyril Davison, farmer and quarryman, recorded at home in Nafferton; talks about the local choir; work with farm horses; horse ploughing (matches); tractor ploughing; hedge laying; haymaking and building haystacks. [Tr. 15]

Metadata

Identifier shsd67yx
IRN 414773
Class Mark LAVC/SRE/A722r
Level Item
Type of Record Archives - ISAD(G)
Peristent Link http://prototype1.library.leeds.ac.uk/shsd67yx
Collection(s) Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
Category Archive
Parent Record Audiotape Sound Recordings
Creator(s) Ellis, Stanley
Date [1960-1980]
Size and Medium 1 x 12.7cm open reel spool, Duration: 82' 23".

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