Sound Recording, North Yorkshire
Description
[Collector announcement]; Fred Lynley, recorded at home in Rosedale Abbey; talks about miners' cottages; changes in farming methods; peat digging and turf as fuel; local employment; cost of living; learning to sing in the church choir; remembering songs; singing at cricket club social events; sings fragments of 'The Old Rugged Cross' and 'Down in the Fields Where the Buttercups All Grow'; sings 'Forget Me Not'; attempts 'Swale Beautiful Swale'; reference to Ken McDonald, Marie Hart and Joan Ingilby; dialect songs; singing and reading hymns; Methodists and Wesleyans in the Yorkshire Dales; biographical details; recollections of his father; FL's own farm described - livestock and crops, cost of living and effect on farms/farmers; sings fragments of a number of unidentified songs (one identified as 'Thrashing Machine'). 28 of 68.
Metadata
| Identifier | wt2bl44g |
| IRN | 414486 |
| Class Mark | LAVC/SRE/A435r |
| Level | Item |
| Type of Record | Archives - ISAD(G) |
| Peristent Link | http://prototype1.library.leeds.ac.uk/wt2bl44g |
| 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: 47' 54". |