Sound Recordings, West Yorkshire
Details
Type of record: Archive
Title: Sound Recordings, West Yorkshire
Classmark: LAVC/SRE/A082
Creator(s): Cooke, Jane A
Site Location(s): Subject - Denby Dale, West Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom( 53.5723, -1.65895 ); Subject - Birdsedge, West Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom( 53.5659, -1.69727 )
Date(s): [1979-1980]
Size and medium: 1 audiocassette.; Duration: 34' 31".
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/414132
Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
Description
First part of this tape comprises a compilation of extracts from the collector's fieldwork recordings in Birdsedge (principally, clapping and skipping rhymes). [Tape labelled demonstration.] [Tr. 1]
The second part of the tape contains a recording, made in Birdsedge, of Mrs. Smith, talking about the games she played in her childhood at Denby School, West Yorkshire, in the 1930s. Describes the game 'Dick, Pick, Palony'; the summer shuttlecock season, bullies (hoop and stick), cardboard sledges in the summer, 'King William' singing/ring game, 'Big Ship Sails'; 'Nuts in May' ring game; hopscotch; skipping rhymes, including 'Tinker Tailor'; ball bouncing games; describes Birdsedge First School - originally separate playgrounds for boys and girls (same at Denby); counting-out rhymes 'One Potato, Two Potato' and 'Eeny, Meeny'; no games played by informant at Scissett (Secondary) School; talks of 'London Bridge is Falling Down', 'Oranges and Lemons' and 'The Grand Old Duke of York'; country dancing at both Birdsedge and Scissett schools. [Tr. 2]
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Provenance
Tape labelled demonstration.
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