Sound Recordings, [Derbyshire]
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Type of record: Archive
Title: Sound Recordings, [Derbyshire]
Classmark: LAVC/SRE/A045
Creator(s): Wright, Fiona J
Site Location(s): Subject - Altrincham, Greater Manchester, England, United Kingdom( 53.3875, -2.34848 ); Subject - Manchester, Greater Manchester, England, United Kingdom( 53.4809, -2.23743 ); Subject - Stretford, Greater Manchester, England, United Kingdom( 53.45, -2.31667 )
Date(s): December 1978
Size and medium: 1 audiocassette.; Duration: 18' 10".
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/414095
Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
Description
[Collector announcement: informant's name, year and place of birth]; Linda Aldcroft talks about her childhood Christmases in Altrincham (Cheshire) - preparations, including Stir Up Sunday (cake/pudding stirred), Advent, collecting holly; Christmas dinner, tea, bobbing for apples in the kitchen, songs, decorations, school parties, stocking and contents; children's party on Boxing Day; 'Miner's Dream of Home' record played on New Year's Eve [informant recites words]; decorations down on Epiphany, holly on the fire on Shrove Tuesday, and if cooking pancakes on a gas cooker, piece of holly saved to put on the gas under the pancakes. [Tr. 3]
[Collector announcement: informants' names, years and places of birth]; Dennis Wright and Jean Wright [collector's parents], born Manchester and Stretford respectively, talk about Christmas preparations - pudding and mincemeat made in September, handmade decorations and Christmas cards, stocking contents, food (turkey and pork), games, tea, balloon game; New Year's Eve. [Tr. 4]
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