Sound Recording, North Yorkshire
Description
[Collector announcement]; John White, Ralph Brown and Joe Sanderson, recorded in conversation at John White's house in Ugthorpe. Talk of Jack Gallon; winning the handicap; prize winning quoit team members singing songs at the Quoits Supper (also talk of dominoes and food at this event); quoits matches - social aspect, inter-generational, Handicap and Individual; songs sung at the supper; women at the supper; [?JW's son] Andrew enters - some talk of his quoits playing; discussion of farms and farming in the Ugthorpe area; changes in farming practices; each talks about their own farm and land use; comments on the songs and other singers at the Quoits Supper. All discuss what makes a good song; singing in other villages ( Sleights and Lealholm); pub singing and getting order; quoits matches and singing at Beck Hole (against Fylingthorpe); passing the gallon jug around the pub; Ugthorpe village community and the influx of outsiders; the village church and schools; the future for the Quoits Supper and quoit playing; the problem of pitch ownership. 63 of 68.
Metadata
| Identifier | wjmch37j |
| IRN | 414521 |
| Class Mark | LAVC/SRE/A470r |
| Level | Item |
| Type of Record | Archives - ISAD(G) |
| Peristent Link | http://prototype1.library.leeds.ac.uk/wjmch37j |
| Collection(s) | Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture |
| Category | Archive |
| Parent Record | Audiotape Sound Recordings |
| Creator(s) | Sullivan, Keith Frederick |
| Date | 30 November 1976 |
| Size and Medium | 1 x 12.7cm open reel spool, Duration: 65' 10". |