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Sound Recording, East Riding of Yorkshire

Archive Item: LAVC/SRE/A099r

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Type of record: Archive

Title: Sound Recording, East Riding of Yorkshire

Level: Item

Classmark: LAVC/SRE/A099r

Creator(s): Chamberlain, John S

Site Location(s): Subject - Wetwang, East Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom( 54.0175, -0.57738 )

Date(s): July/August 1961

Size and medium: 1 x 12.7cm open reel spool; Duration: 20' 16".

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/414149

Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture

Description

Schoolboy [? Stephen Sissons, recorded in a pub in Wetwang] describes children's games - jacks, hide and seek (including the dipping rhyme 'One Potato Two Potato'), Block (similar to hide and seek), Bulldog, All Across, Hopping Johnny, Hound and Hares (all chasing games, played in Wetwang in the late 1950s); describes Tig and recites a dipping rhyme to choose It; describes ball games Eggity Budge, Offground, leap frog, Dodge Ball, Ringy, Passball and rounders; describes the chasing game Mr. Wolf (two versions).


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Reproduction

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Physical and technical conditions

9.5cm/sec; tape originally twisted - tape untwisted before copying; resultant crease does not affect playback quality.

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Children

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England

Folklore

Games

Hide-and-seek

Jacks (Game)

Persons

Play

Wetwang

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