Sound Recording, Oxfordshire
Description
Fanny Hitchman, recorded in Adderbury; sings two songs. The first is a May song, the second is titled 'Dame Crump'. [Tr. 1] Male informant, recorded at home, remembers inhabitants of Adderbury; walnutting as a boy; mail taken by horse and cart; Dumpling Holmes; gravestone inscriptions; village pubs and women; thoughts on changes in pub activities - darts, shove halfpenny, dominoes; house interiors; pig keeping and killing; food from pig; local rhymes/sayings; whistle player, Chris Dear; song re. fishing in Barford Brook; pigeon-keeping; the Rollright Stones and battle at nearby Long Compton; pub name, The Gate Hangs High, and associated saying; the name Adderbury; local school master and corporal punishment. [Tr. 2] 7 of 7.
Metadata
| Identifier | wr113sd2 |
| IRN | 414379 |
| Class Mark | LAVC/SRE/A328r |
| Level | Item |
| Type of Record | Archives - ISAD(G) |
| Peristent Link | http://prototype1.library.leeds.ac.uk/wr113sd2 |
| Collection(s) | Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture |
| Category | Archive |
| Parent Record | Audiotape Sound Recordings |
| Creator(s) | Pickering, Michael J |
| Date | 25 March 1978 |
| Size and Medium | 1 x 12.7cm open reel spool, Duration: 48' 38". |