Sound Recording, West Yorkshire
Details
Type of record: Archive
Title: Sound Recording, West Yorkshire
Classmark: LAVC/SRE/A080
Creator(s): Cooke, Jane A
Site Location(s): Subject - Birdsedge, West Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom( 53.5659, -1.69727 )
Date(s): [1979]
Size and medium: 1 audiocassette.; Duration: 90' 31".
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/414130
Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
Description
Mrs. Wood, recorded in Birdsedge; gives biographical details and information on her schooling in Ridgeway, Derbyshire, and Sheffield; describes the school at Ridgeway and playtimes (in the mid 1940s); skipping together (with teachers, during wartime, and with parents at home in the evenings - summertime only); sledging in winter; explains 'Tiggy Relievo', ball bouncing games (individual/group), including 'One, Two, Three A' Leary'; describes party games, playground games 'Farmer's in his Den', boys and girls skipping together, playing 'Farmer Farmer'; skipping rhymes/games; general thoughts on childhood; end of rationing (sweets); clothing; teaching her children to skip, ball games; May Day - maypole, singing 'Maytime Playtime' at Birdsedge School - describes proceedings; Whitsuntide - new clothes, visiting relations and receiving threepenny bit; Whit Sings in Sheffield parks on Whit Monday; Birdsedge village - development of community; feeder villages for Birdsedge First School; population
of the village - age range, occupations including farming, mill work in Denby Dale and Shepley; contemporary work patterns - farming, textiles; clapping games with rhymes - explains movements; counting-out rhyme, 'Ickle Ockle Chocolate Bottle'; dibbing; It/On distinction.
[Recording level varies throughout - very low in places.]
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