Sound Recordings, North Yorkshire

Description

Male, recorded in Filey in 1962 [date when this copy tape made not known]; talks about being employed as a veterinary's groom; talks about working hours, and relates a number of anecdotes; talks about other jobs, including harvesting, labouring; joining the Army in 1914; career after discharged; recollections of Martinmas Week and hirings; town Institute; circuses and shows; value of money; modern transport; Army experience and Army-related anecdotes; work as a firewatcher during World War Two; talks about gardening; ploughing with horses; clod hopping; farm work; shoeing horses; allotments - growing his own fruit and vegetables. [Tr. 3] Male, recorded in Filey; talks about his working life; farm work on the Yorkshire Wolds; blacksmith's apprentice (working hours); repairing/making agricultural equipment at Kirkbymoorside; shop owning at Sherburn, and the effects of war on business. [Tr. 4] Male, recorded in Filey; talks about fishing at sea; boats; the weather and storms at sea; convoying in the Atlantic during World War One; talk of local character known as Brassy, and other (nick)names; food at sea; preparing/baiting lines; describes how to make a crab pot; boat parts - terminology; coble boats and landing; racing for a handkerchief [wedding custom]; music and singing; coal ships; decline of the Filey fishing industry; women travelling to Scarborough to work as baiters; reduced train fare for fishermen and their wives; women picking bait and carrying lines on their heads; wartime and the Royal Navy Reserve Trawler Section (convoys and mine sweeping); fishermen's clothes. [Tr. 5] Male, recorded in Filey; talks about blacksmithing, wheelwrighting and basketmaking; terminology relating to cobles (boats); the Yorkshire Show; Filey blacksmiths; blacksmiths' and fishermen's clothing; fishing bait; anecdote re. a shipwreck on Speeton Cliffs. [Tr. 6] 9 of 10.

Metadata

Identifier tzr4c9m8
IRN 414618
Class Mark LAVC/SRE/A567r
Level Item
Type of Record Archives - ISAD(G)
Peristent Link http://prototype1.library.leeds.ac.uk/tzr4c9m8
Collection(s) Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
Category Archive
Parent Record Audiotape Sound Recordings
Creator(s) Widdowson, John D A
Date [Mid-1960s]
Size and Medium 1 x 14.6cm open reel spool, Duration: 92' 41".

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