TY  - SOUND
TI  - Roy Palmer collection CD 12
PY  - 2001///]
PB  - British Library Sound Archive
N1  - Compact disc; 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; BLSA Playback 1CDR0007258, Archive 2CDR0008798
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