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Sound Recording, North Yorkshire

Archive Item: LAVC/SRE/A610r

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Type of record: Archive

Title: Sound Recording, North Yorkshire

Level: Item

Classmark: LAVC/SRE/A610r

Creator(s): Calvert, Kit (1903-1984)

Site Location(s): Subject - Hawes, North Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom( 54.3039, -2.19605 )

Date(s): [1960s]

Size and medium: 1 x 12.7cm open reel spool; Duration: 9' 55".

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/414661

Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture

Description

Kit Calvert, recorded by himself at home in Hawes; recollects his childhood and the calendar custom known as New Year's Gifting - walking the village of Hawes, collecting gifts from villagers (pennies, oranges, treacle parkin); explains that the oranges were used in marmalade, the apples for pasties and the pennies went towards new clothes from the Clothing Club; sings a New Year's Gifting rhyme. [Tr. 1]


Unidentified male [?possibly Kit Calvert, ?recorded in Wensleydale] talks about (Wensleydale) cheese and cheesemaking; lists varieties; details the size of the dairy/creamery of which he is manager; talks of the decline of farmhouse cheesemaking at home; recollects his aunt making her own cheese at home, including making her own rennet; compares modern methods of production with his aunt's method; compares modern and older stone cheese presses. [Tr. 2]

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Physical and technical conditions

9.5cm/sec.

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Calendar rites

Children's songs

Culture

Dairy Products

England

Folk Music

Food

Gooding, New Year's (North Yorkshire, England)

Holidays

Home

House visiting

Manners and Customs

Manners and customs

New Year

North Yorkshire

Persons

Rites and Ceremonies

Social Life and Customs

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