Sound Recording, West Yorkshire
Details
Type of record: Archive
Title: Sound Recording, West Yorkshire
Classmark: LAVC/SRE/A574r
Creator(s): Neale, Brenda Ann
Site Location(s): Subject - Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom( 53.7965, -1.54785 )
Date(s): 30 March 1976
Size and medium: 1 x 12.7cm open reel spool; Duration: 96' 30".
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/414625
Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
Description
[Collector announcement]; male and female [informants on tapes LAVC/SRE/A571r - A573r], recorded in the home of the female's parents in Leeds; discuss courtship/marriage; thoughts on women asking men out/women proposing (in a leap year) [female informant's mother contributes]; love at first sight; Mr. Right/Miss Right; wedding venue(s) - church/Registry; reception and honeymoon - importance of; wishing on (friend's) wedding cake (divination); marriage agencies; female talks about her teenage activities with friends; joining the police; boyfriends; male's girlfriends; pub as a meeting place; parental controls during childhood; wedding costs.
Both talk about the post-wedding/honeymoon routine (first week); house warming party; thoughts on why people marry; married life; children (outside marriage); divorce; the effects of marriage on behaviour/routine; what makes a good marriage; what is love; adjusting to married life; thoughts on living together rather than marrying; sex in marriage; leaving work - practical jokes on women leaving to get married (costumes made, decorations); preferences for where to live (in/around Leeds); living with parents after marriage; schooling - male and his siblings; his career and thoughts on engineering work, apprenticeship, training; joining the cadets aged fourteen; thoughts on the Army; redundancy and new job prospects; parents'/brother's occupations; careers advice; female on future work plans; male on married women working.
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Physical and technical conditions
9.5cm/sec. High recording level. Adjusted on AC copy.
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