Sound Recording, North Yorkshire
Description
[Collector announcement]; Jacky Gallon, recorded at home in Ugthorpe; talks about farm work; relations in the village; the Black Bull pub; previous Friday's quoits club social - singing and songs, repertoires; thoughts on modern songs; importance of the story in a song; song transmission; local singer, Anthony Newton; quoit team social events; transmission of songs within families; JG's prizes for quoits [?playing, ?post-match singing]; Ugthorpe village; domino drives at Quoits Supper; Ugthorpe farms; Tranmire and parish/county boundaries; village school [JG's granddaughter arrives and chats re. Christmas cakes and food]; JG's education; talk of the village and environs, local blacksmith and bacon factory; old quoits players, post-match singing, past matches against Roxby, importance of practice, young players; two teams in Ugthorpe; describes the game of quoits; other clubs and players; singing and women at quoits club socials; thoughts on what makes a good horse. [Tr. 3] Talk of horses continues; looks at old photographs; JG's wife talks about quoits socials; discuss horses JG has worked with; uncle's quoit playing; changes in farming - mechanisation; farm work - pay, hours, Martinmas Week holiday; Hiring Fairs; changes in farms and farm life; pubs in Egton Bridge; wife brings more photographs; farm horses and jobs performed; Shire and Cleveland Bay horse breeds; decline in the use of horses; horse commands; horse health; driving horses to Lealholm; wife brings more photographs; discussion of farm work, horses, playing quoits; [unidentified visitor enters]; continue discussing the photographs. [Tr. 1] 36 of 68.
Metadata
| Identifier | xgtc2rvf |
| IRN | 414494 |
| Class Mark | LAVC/SRE/A443r |
| Level | Item |
| Type of Record | Archives - ISAD(G) |
| Peristent Link | http://prototype1.library.leeds.ac.uk/xgtc2rvf |
| Collection(s) | Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture |
| Category | Archive |
| Parent Record | Audiotape Sound Recordings |
| Creator(s) | Sullivan, Keith Frederick |
| Date | 29 November 1976 |
| Size and Medium | 1 x 12.7cm open reel spool, Duration: 91' 45". |