Sound Recording, North Yorkshire
Description
Fred Longthorne, of Greenhow Hill, talks about lead mining in Nidderdale, and Greenhow Hill in particular: tools, local mines, clothing, shoes, discovering Stump Cross Caverns; mining career in the 1920s; carting; working the dumps (re-working spoil tips) for spar; Greenhow village school; community life; local midwife; church - many miners Wesleyan Methodists; working horses in mines; dialects and accents; discuss photographs of mines, Greenhow village, family (c. 1903), informant's family home (c. 1914-1920); discuss the poem 'Pateley Races' - informant reads some lines; poem 'Parting', by Thomas Blacker; radio script on John Kay's grave and the custom of knocking on it, by Elspeth Hawthornthwaite (programme pre-recorded October 13th 1954), entitled 'Contribution to the North Countryman - John Kay', read on the tape by Charles Oldroyd. Recordings made on 6 September 1976 and 9 September 1976.
Metadata
| Identifier | slqrps5b |
| IRN | 414078 |
| Class Mark | LAVC/SRE/A028 |
| Level | Item |
| Type of Record | Archives - ISAD(G) |
| Peristent Link | http://prototype1.library.leeds.ac.uk/slqrps5b |
| Collection(s) | Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture |
| Category | Archive |
| Parent Record | Audiotape Sound Recordings |
| Creator(s) | Oldroyd, Charles H |
| Date | 6 Sep 1976 - 9 Sep 1976 |
| Size and Medium | 1 audiocassette., Duration: 90' 23". |