Call No.: SCD CDA PALMER 12 Sound Lib. CDA Roy Palmer collection CD 12 - British Library Sound Archive, [2001]. - 1 sound disc : digital ; 4 3/4 in.

Compact disc.

Contents: C1023/20 [VWML tape 359]. George Dunn, Quarry Bank, Dudley, West Midlands, 29 October 1973: 1. Talks about his birth; early years -- 2. Hearing songs at home; father's fishing; father's birth; illiteracy in the family -- 3. Father's family; iron trade, early 1900's -- 4. Father's occupation in iron trade; detailed description of processes; puddling; bundling; cutting rods -- 5. Poaching; grandfather; murder of gamekeeper on Earl of Dudley's estate -- 6. [changing over tape] -- 7. Father imitating nightingale in woods; vicar of Quarry Bank church; his parent's marriage -- 8. Going hop picking with his mother; traveling to hop fields by train; staying in barns; pay (a shilling for 10 bushels); singing while picking; songs sung in hop fields, singing around the camp fire after the evening meal -- 9. Favourite songs amongst the pickers; 'He was good and so kind to me'; his reputation as a singer; hop picking processes; the crib [structures of poles to hold hops]; hop driers.



Acc no.: SR05206