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Sound Recording, [Location not given]

Archive Item: LAVC/SRE/A542r

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Type of record: Archive

Title: Sound Recording, [Location not given]

Level: Item

Classmark: LAVC/SRE/A542r

Creator(s): Upton, Clive S

Date(s): [Mid-1970s]

Size and medium: 1 x 12.7cm open reel spool; Duration: 100' 27".

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/414593

Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture

Description

Male informant describes his career in the Birmingham butchering trade (of forty-nine years, since the age of fourteen); talks about keeping pigs; setting up his butcher's shop; gives answers to the collector's questionnaire concerning language and terminology associated with the butchering trade. Questions relate to beef, lamb, pork and poultry, and the answers include the names given to animals of differing ages, meat cut terms, terminology for slaughtering and slaughtering methods, the processing and preparation of carcasses, machinery and equipment, blood products and other by-products, the names given to other people working in the meat trade, meat storage, butchers' clothing and meat curing. Reference also to sending apprentices on false errands (to fetch sky hooks and thekey to the blood hole). The collector refers to numbered diagrams, to elicit answers concerning meat cut terms. Concludes on tape LAVC/SRE/A543r.


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