Sound Recordings, Liverpool, Manchester and Preston
Details
Type of record: Archive
Title: Sound Recordings, Liverpool, Manchester and Preston
Classmark: LAVC/SRE/A002r
Creator(s): Calvert, Valerie E
Site Location(s): Subject - Preston, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom( 53.7628, -2.70452 ); Subject - Ormskirk, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom( 53.5669, -2.88178 ); Subject - Liverpool, Merseyside, England, United Kingdom( 53.4106, -2.97794 )
Date(s): April 1961
Size and medium: 1 x 7.6cm open reel spool; Duration: 44' 04".
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/414052
Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
Description
Peggy Meek describes egg customs - conkering, displaying decorated eggs, egg rolling on Easter Monday, ingredients for decorating eggs [informant is Secretary of the Cumberland and Westmorland Benevolent Society of Liverpool and District. Collector provides information at tape end]. [Tr. 4]
Emma Vickers describes [ Burscough] Pace Egg Play - locations, origins/meaning of word pace; Easter food - Simnel cake, Hot Cross Buns, currant Shaddy; [Collector gives information at tape end: Informant is Chair of Burscough Latham Old Age Pensioners' Club]. [Tr. 5]
Mr. W. I. Champion, of Walton-le-Dale near Preston, discusses English society - religion, [Preston] Guilds, Holy Days, Feasts, egg rolling, Pace Egg(ing); the Reformation; Preston and non-conformity; Easter Monday festivities in Preston - explains why peace egg - link with Catholic observances, symbolism; egg rolling and decorating; egg games; egg rolling in Avenham Park and Avenham Valley on Easter Monday - music and dance; significance of the custom; Anglo-Catholicism discussed. [Tr. 6]
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