Sound Recordings, North Yorkshire

Description

Frank Raw, recorded at home in Danby with his wife, talks about the village; the decline of the young population and job opportunities in the Yorkshire Dales; changes in farming methods (mechanisation); describes the old method of harvesting and threshing; talks of entertainment, musical evenings, Christmas parties and singing at local farms, the decline of local dances and the influence of transport improvements; local male voice choir (the Dalesman Singers); reference to Arthur Tindall and Frank Moor; the British Legion; singing socially; pubs and changes in opening hours; local farms and farming described; tenant farming 1921-1961; Hiring Fairs in Whitby, Guisborough and Pickering; cheesemaking; farm workers on FR's farm, involvement of the family; modern farms and employment situation; changes - electricity; harvest time; harvest festival, hymns and supper; Christmas parties; neighbourliness and changing work patterns of rural population; wife's singing; Frank Weatherill - musical ability and writings - reference to visit of another Leeds University researcher; FR singing as a soldier during World War One. [Tr. 1] Arthur Tindall, recorded at home in Ainthorpe, talks about Chapel choir; the Dalesman Singers (male voice choir) and their conductor (?Colin Thrupp); AT's own farm, stock and crops; modern farming methods; recreation when younger; farming life; singing with the Dalesman Singers, and their repertoire; favourite songs; lists concert venues; carol singing in Chapel and house/farm visiting at Christmas; playing cards; Frank Raw; farm workers, family farms and changes in the scale of farming; younger generation moving away from the area; Hiring Fairs; World War One and the effect on farm labour; harvest time, threshing; pub singing; wife's singing; wife comments on the effect of television and radio on family sing songs; changes in the idea of entertainment, and the loss of old songs. [Tr. 2] 30 of 68.

Metadata

Identifier vvk2vsc4
IRN 414488
Class Mark LAVC/SRE/A437r
Level Item
Type of Record Archives - ISAD(G)
Peristent Link http://prototype1.library.leeds.ac.uk/vvk2vsc4
Collection(s) Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
Category Archive
Parent Record Audiotape Sound Recordings
Creator(s) Sullivan, Keith Frederick
Date 2 April 1976
Size and Medium 1 x 12.7cm open reel spool, Duration: 85' 06".

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