Sound Recordings, North East Lincolnshire
Details
Type of record: Archive
Title: Sound Recordings, North East Lincolnshire
Classmark: LAVC/SRE/A105r
Creator(s): Whitney, Norman F
Site Location(s): Subject - Grimsby, Lincolnshire, England, United Kingdom( 53.5654, -0.07553 )
Date(s): [1964]
Size and medium: 1 x 12.7cm open reel spool; Duration: 104' 59".
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/414155
Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
Description
Schoolchildren from Grimsby [interviewed by an unidentified woman, ?in a house rather than at school] describe singing/ring games, and give examples; also, describe chasing games, nursery rhymes (sung/chanted), skipping rhymes, including Chinese skipping (elastics), French skipping; ball games; street games, hide and seek, hopscotch; singing; jokes; party games; board games. [Trs. 1-2]
Male [?Norman Whitney] interviews schoolchildren [?in school]: descriptions and examples of dipping (rhymes), ball games, skipping (rhymes) and songs; collecting faggies [cigarette cards]; fighting games; chasing games; weather rhyme, beliefs. [Tr. 3]
Male [?Norman Whitney] interviews schoolboy [?in school]: describes street games, string games, word games; songs [parodies]; party games; beliefs, including luck (e.g. numbers on bus ticket). [Tr. 4]
The children interviewed attend South Parade Infant and Junior School, and Chelmsford School. Reference is also made to ?Macaulay Street School, Grimsby.
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