Spring and Summer Festivals
Details
Type of record: Archive
Title: Spring and Summer Festivals
Classmark: LAVC/FLF/9/2/10
Site Location(s): Subject - Castleton, Derbyshire, England, United Kingdom( 53.3431, -1.77506 ); Subject - West Witton, North Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom( 54.2891, -1.91733 )
Date(s): 1963-1981
Size and medium: 1 file of printed, ms. and photocopied papers, and mounted magazine and newspaper cuttings.
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/410703
Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
Description
This file includes a colour section from the West Yorkshire Road Car Company calendar for 1963 on well-dressing in Tissington, Derbyshire, on Ascension Day; a section of a colour poster on the May Day custom of crowning the May Queen at Knutsford, Cheshire; a photocopy of Raymond Gardner's article on May Day celebrations in Padstow, Cornwall (3 May 1975); part of an ms. letter from Mrs. J. Robertson on the choosing of the May Queen amongst young girls in Leeds; a pamphlet on Castleton Garland prepared by Geoff Lester for the Survey of Language and Folklore, University of Sheffield (May 1972); a copy of a typed letter from Joyce Salmona (Institute of Dialect and Folk Life Studies (IDFLS) archivist) to Mr. J. A. Robinson with information relating to Lammas (29 July 1968); a mounted photocopy of a page from Eliza Gutch's 'Examples of Printed Folklore Concerning the North Riding of Yorkshire and the Ainsty' (London: Folklore Society, 1901), pp. 331-332, including a section on Bartle burning at
West Witton during the village feast beginning on St. Bartholomew's Day; and mounted magazine and newspaper cuttings from 'Country Life' on maypoles, and the tradition of decorating with oak boughs and oak leaves on the day of Charles II's restoration.
File contents retained in original classification order, and chronologically within this.
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