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Sound Recordings, West Yorkshire

Archive Item: LAVC/SRE/A084

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Type of record: Archive

Title: Sound Recordings, West Yorkshire

Level: Item

Classmark: LAVC/SRE/A084

Creator(s): Cooke, Jane A

Site Location(s): Subject - Birdsedge, West Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom( 53.5659, -1.69727 )

Date(s): [1979-1980]

Size and medium: 1 audiocassette.; Duration: 46' 43".

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/414134

Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture

Description

[Conclusion of interview with Mrs. Senior and Mrs. Woodhouse, recorded in Birdsedge, from tape LAVC/SRE/A083.] Explanation of ring game 'I Had a Pigeon in My Pocket' - Mrs. W. knew it as 'Lucy Locket Lost a Pocket'; talk of a chasing game (Wolf); both sing and explain 'Farmer's in his Den'; Mrs. W. cites the origins of 'Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush' - prisoners at Wakefield Prison, parading around a mulberry bush, used to sing it. [Tr. 3]


The rest of this tape contains the conclusion of the interview with Mrs. Frith and her daughter, which starts on tape LAVC/SRE/A079. Both discuss ball games; Mrs. Frith talks about games pre-television, crazes (e.g. tops); daughter recites the clapping game 'A Sailor Went to Sea Sea Sea'; talk of more counting-out rhymes, the skipping rhyme 'Wee Willy Winkie', the ball bouncing rhyme for 'One Two Three O' Laira'; Mrs. Frith talks about the village of Birdsedge, the community and the occupations of the villagers. [Tr. 5 - final 35 minutes]


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