Sound Recording, County Durham

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David Bennett and Olive Bennett, of Shotton Colliery, discuss foodways, domestic and occupational customs: Sunday dinner, Saturday mealtimes, Sunday tea, Christmas food, Easter food; food for special occasions - christenings, birthdays, weddings (scrambling for hot pennies), funeral tea (ham and tea); local dishes; drink - home made ginger wine, ginger beer, herb beer, lemon barley water; senna pods; food for visitors; pig keeping - black pudding, bacon; bread making; salting herrings; blackberrying; collecting water for washing; washing clothes using a dolly stick and posh tub; wartime food (World War Two); ?kettle broth (Cornwall); coal deliveries; potato picking; seaside visits; father's food for work (collier); the death of miners - funeral bidders inviting people to attend, funeral clothes (colours, widow's weeds - grey); wartime food (First and Second World wars) - rations; wedding food during rationing; cinder toffee, toffee apples.

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Tape accompanies a paper written as part of an undergraduate 'Survey of Domestic Eating Arrangements' exercise. This and other similar student papers are held in the Folk Life File, LAVC/FLF/3/8/4.


An article, extracted from the 'Northern Echo' newspaper, 15 July 1982, on Lesley Hargreaves' research into mourning customs and funeral teas in the village of Shotton Colliery, is held in the Folk Life File, LAVC/FLF/1/3/8. Hargreaves' B.A. dissertation (Leeds, 1982), 'The Rites of Passage of Baptism, Marriage and Death in Shotton Colliery', is held at LAVC/SRP/2/120.

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