Sound Recordings, Suffolk

Description

Geoff Ling, recorded at home in Blaxhall; sings 'The Green Bushes', learned from his grandfather, Aaron Ling; singers in the Ling family; Harvest Frolics; the Ship Inn, singing and the segregation of women; mother's singing and dancing [mother née Susan Poacher]; prizes for entertainment; sings song sung by her father, Oscar Ling, 'My Sweet Irish Girl'; the growing stone at Stone Farm; father's work as a horseman; GL's work on the farm; farm wages; houses lived in; Lords of the Manor; family; World War Two experiences with the Suffolk Regiment in Japan - prisoner of war; farm work and decline in the local area; population of Blaxhall; marriage and children; work at a water plant; singing and television appearance on the BBC's 'As I Rode Out'; filming at the Ship Inn; learning songs; singing at Harvest Frolics; bread baking; the name Blaxhall; the Ling family; Gypsy Traveller communities; singing licences; singing at the Ship Inn, giving order, singers and song ownership; songs learned from his mother; sings 'In the Shade of the Apple Tree'; comments on what makes a good singer; step dancing and his mother's dancing; the Candlestick Dance. Discussion and description of the Candlestick Dance; women in pubs; acorn picking for pig feed, crow scaring, gleaning, farm machines and the drag rake; pub games, including quoits; singing at the Golden Key pub in Snape, and playing quoits; village rivalry; comments on changes in pub activities and singing, pop music; singing at a London Working Men's Club; family of singers; sings 'You Wished Me to Forget You', learned from his grandfather Darkie Poacher; sings 'Little Brown Road', learned from his mother. [Tr. 3] Geoff Ling and Cyril Poacher, recorded at Grove Farm in Blaxhall on the 17 November 1974. GL sings 'The Green Bushes' and 'Grief O Grief', learned from his grandfather, Aaron Ling; Cyril Poacher sings part of 'If I Were a Blackbird'; GL sings 'Little Ball of Yarn'; CP sings part of 'The Burden of the Spray'; both talk about remembering songs; GL sings 'Maggie May' and 'A Group of Young Squaddies' [latter heard at the Ship Inn]; CP sings part of 'The Dark Eyed Sailor'; GL sings 'Over the Burning Plains of Egypt'. [Tr. 1] 66 of 79.

Metadata

Identifier	zg94rxk1
IRN	414445
Class Mark	LAVC/SRE/A394r
Level	Item
Type of Record	Archives - ISAD(G)
Peristent Link	http://prototype1.library.leeds.ac.uk/zg94rxk1
Collection(s)	Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
Category	Archive
Parent Record	Audiotape Sound Recordings
Creator(s)	Dunn, Ginette
Date	2 November 1974
Size and Medium	1 x 12.7cm open reel spool, Duration: 86' 29".

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