Sound Recordings, Bedfordshire

Description

Will Clarke, recorded in Stanbridge; talks about his daughter's move from Stanbridge to Hertfordshire [his daughters, Mrs. W. Urquhartand Mary Cooper, and sons-in-law William Cooper and Mr. W. Urquhart, also contribute]; discussion of the tape recorder/recording; child [?son/grandson, John, contributes]; Will Clarke talks about the building of the chapel; prayer meetings, Sunday School, preaching service, open-air service, procession back to the chapel for another service, evening prayer meeting. [Tr. 1] George Horne, recorded in the Red Lion pub in Stanbridge; talks of work, wages and the cost of living in the early 1900s; the weather; farm work and mechanisation; the cost of living; the chapel and services on the village green (people attending from Luton); the Foresters' Club payments and sickness benefit (reference to Eggington and Tilsworth Feasts); Stanbridge Feast; February Horse Fair; Leighton BuzzardStattin (agricultural hiring fair); Guy Fawkes Night; gooseberry pudding eaten on Whitsun Sunday; Largesse - collection made from employers, to buy drinks for local (agricultural) employees; grave of an unknown woman; stocks tree. [Tr. 2] John Scott [brother of Harry Scott on tapes LAVC/SRE/A746r and A748r], recorded with his wife, Mrs. J. Scott in Billington; talk about changes in the village; local sand pits; village vicars; Leighton Buzzard market; Billington straw plait (hat); plaiting school; plait market; price of plait, colouring and production; taking hay to London; comments on the tape recorder/recording; the weather and its affect on the harvest; local people discussed; Billington brick works. [Tr. 3] Various people, including Fanny Scott and her daughter-in-law, Mrs. Jack Scott, recorded in the Old Farm Inn, Totternhoe. Includes general banter, joke telling and anecdotes; discussion of the cost of living in the early 1900s; farming and farm work; agricultural wages; rick building; piano tune [unidentified fragment]; unidentified male sings [first line: 'Beneath the oak in the garden']; male sings [unidentified]; male sings 'The Village Pump'; all sing [unidentified]; all sing 'Old Fashioned Mother of Mine'; discussion of various songs; all sing [unidentified fragment]. [Tr. 4] Tape 2. [2 of 8].

Metadata

Identifier	y3z6x1gn
IRN	414798
Class Mark	LAVC/SRE/A747r
Level	Item
Type of Record	Archives - ISAD(G)
Peristent Link	http://prototype1.library.leeds.ac.uk/y3z6x1gn
Collection(s)	Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
Category	Archive
Parent Record	Audiotape Sound Recordings
Creator(s)	Shaw, David H
Date	1955
Size and Medium	1 x 17.8cm open reel spool, Duration: 131' 40".

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