Sound Recordings, West Yorkshire
Details
Type of record: Archive
Title: Sound Recordings, West Yorkshire
Classmark: LAVC/SRE/A027
Creator(s): Starkey, Helen
Site Location(s): Subject - Sowerby Bridge, Calderdale, West Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom( 53.709, -1.90929 ); Subject - Brighouse, West Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom( 53.7032, -1.78428 ); Subject - Halifax, West Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom( 53.7167, -1.85 )
Date(s): 28 Sep 1976 - 29 Sep 1979
Size and medium: 1 audiocassette.; Duration: 44' 34".
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/414077
Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
Description
Foodways: informants [ Gladys Parker and her husband], recorded in Brighouse, talk about beer/wine making; Sowerby Bridge Dock Pudding; Christmas food - preparation, ingredients for Christmas meal; Easter food - Simnel Cake (Mothering Sunday); wedding cakes; birthday food; traditional remedies; pobs (bread and milk) for babies and those unwell; Whitsuntide treat - coffee and currant buns, games in local field; collecting food from local shops - treacle, vinegar, sugar, flour. Recorded 28 September 1976. [Tr. 3]
Stella Cardus, of Halifax, describes a local grocer's shop - buying food ca. 1935; food preparation - cakes, fish; recollections of her grandparents and their foodways; pobs, bread and dripping, teatime. Recorded 29 September 1976. [Tr. 4]
Gladys Parker sings 'On Ilkla Moor Baht 'at'. [Tr. 5]
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