Sound Recordings, [Shropshire and Birmingham]
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Type of record: Archive
Title: Sound Recordings, [Shropshire and Birmingham]
Classmark: LAVC/SRE/A038
Creator(s): Carter, Julie
Site Location(s): Subject - Shropshire, England, United Kingdom( 52.6667, -2.75 ); Subject - Birmingham, West Midlands, England, United Kingdom( 52.4814, -1.89983 )
Date(s): 29 Dec 1978 - 4 Jan 1979
Size and medium: 1 audiocassette.; Duration: 39' 51".
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/414088
Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
Description
[Collector announcement - informant collector's grandmother]; Alice Payne 's recollections of Christmas in Shropshire - preparations, including collecting holly; presents; food (Christmas pudding, cake, mincemeat); going to church in Ludlow; carol singing on Christmas Eve (with swede lantern); Christmas Day at home - carol singing; father at work on farm on Christmas Day and Boxing Day; belief in Father Christmas (until aged 8); seeing Father Christmas outside shops in Shrewsbury; thoughts on present-day Christmas; presents bought for her children (always dolls for girls), new clothes; music and games organised by son-in-law; Christmas during World War Two (Christmas Club, paid into in West Bromwich). Recorded on 29 December 1978. [Tr. 6]
[Collector announcement - informant collector's mother]; Dorothy Carter recounts childhood recollections of Christmas in Birmingham in the 1930s - family centred; tradition and habit; commercialisation; routine - Christmas Eve preparations, Christmas morning, including food (pork pie and bread and butter, whisky in tea); Christmas dinner and tea; music in the evening (singing); Boxing Day lunch; decorations; religious aspect of Christmas. Recorded 4 January 1979. [Tr. 7]
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