Sound Recordings, Lincolnshire
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Type of record: Archive
Title: Sound Recordings, Lincolnshire
Classmark: LAVC/SRE/A036
Creator(s): Sutton, Diane
Site Location(s): Subject - Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England, United Kingdom( 53.2268, -0.53792 ); Subject - Wragby, Lincolnshire, England, United Kingdom( 53.2833, -0.3 )
Date(s): 2 Jan 1979 - 4 Jan 1979
Size and medium: 1 audiocassette.; Duration: 34' 48".
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/414086
Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
Description
Marjorie Sutton [collector's grandmother] and Irvin Sutton [collector's father] discuss pig-killing at Christmas; Lincoln butter market - travelling from Wragby to sell produce; Christmas parties - games played; card parties (young men). [Tr. 2]
Marjorie Sutton continues, with talk of belief in Santa Claus; present giving - recollections from c. 1904; travelling to the Pupil Teacher Centre in Louth; Christmas food; recollections of Christmas in the 1930s [preceded by an announcement by the collector]; effect of World War Two on Christmas. Recorded in Wragby on 2 January 1979. [Tr. 3]
[Collector announcement: dates, ages of informants, location]: Mary Kent and Charles Kent [collector's uncle and aunt; collector's mother, Beryl Sutton, also present] talk about Christmas in the past - watching Lincoln Football Club on Christmas Day; playing cards; Christmas dinner and preparations for Christmas Day; presents; belief in Father Christmas; carol singing; parties; rabbiting on Boxing Day (with ferrets); singing around the piano; mother's Christmas at Benniworth and her move to Wickenby in 1938; pig-killing; preparing geese, chickens and ducks for local people. Recorded Buslingthorpe (Lincolnshire) on 4 January 1979. [Tr. 4]
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