Sound Recordings, Yorkshire

Description

Mr. Fisher of Thornhill, recorded in 1962; talks about working in a coal mine - hours of work, wages, scale picking (as a youngster); pushing tubs underground; describes the layout underground and the use of gauze (Davy) lamps; working in a twenty-six inch seam; filling tubs; checking lamps; colliery disaster of sixty-seven years ago; the General Strike of 1926; working for the Corporation; family; pit ponies; removing non-coal debris (ripping); wages (per ton); cost of living; setting up home; colliers' demonstration - banner, band (reference to Barnsley and Wakefield); sport (football and cricket); marbles; half-time education at the age of ten; wages; training youngsters; day trips to Blackpool; Whitsuntide Feast; Christmas; July Feast; School Feast (Whit Monday, with Sunday School); drinking and smoking; miner's food/drink underground; healthy living; bringing up family; mining accidents. Mr. Fisher continues with talk of Mischief Night tricks; playing Duckstone; education at a Dame School; pit ponies. [Tr. 1] [Collector announcement, including comments on the original recording on tape A772r, and this copy which has had the playback speed adjusted]; Thomas Ludlam, recorded in Tickhill; talks about Tickhill Fair (October) and local [cattle] markets, including Doncaster; cattle breeding; farming equipment, including tip up cart; haymaking and stooking corn; haystacks and potential problems; haystack thatching; cattle and calving; beastings (first milk). [Tr. 2]

Metadata

Identifier wz31qql9
IRN 414824
Class Mark LAVC/SRE/A773r
Level Item
Type of Record Archives - ISAD(G)
Peristent Link http://prototype1.library.leeds.ac.uk/wz31qql9
Collection(s) Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
Category Archive
Parent Record Audiotape Sound Recordings
Creator(s) Ellis, Stanley
Date [1960s]
Size and Medium 1 x 17.8cm open reel spool, Duration: 54' 05".

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