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Roy Palmer collection CD 12

Material type: MusicMusicPublisher number: BLSA C 1023 Roy Palmer Collection 20 | British Library Sound ArchivePublication details: British Library Sound Archive, [2001].Description: 1 sound disc : digital ; 4 3/4 inAvailable additional physical forms:
  • BLSA Playback 1CDR0007258, Archive 2CDR0008798.
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.
Holdings
Item type Home library Collection Shelving location Class number Materials specified Status Date due Barcode
Sound Recordings Sound Recordings VWML Palmer Recordings Storage SCD CDA PALMER 12 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Reference only SR05206

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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