Sound Recording, West Yorkshire
Details
Type of record: Archive
Title: Sound Recording, West Yorkshire
Classmark: LAVC/SRE/A644r
Creator(s): Evans, George Ewart (1909-1988)
Site Location(s): Subject - Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom( 53.7965, -1.54785 )
Date(s): 26 July 1972
Size and medium: 1 x 12.7cm open reel spool; Duration: 76' 24".
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/414695
Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
Description
Female, recorded in Leeds; talks about her career as Manageress of the Refectory at the University of Leeds (1935-1941). Describes the University in 1935; campus buildings; building scheme (demolition of existing housing); increase in student numbers; the building of the Brotherton Library; the University Librarian; lecturing; catering staff and the organisation of University catering; engagement of staff; meat buying in bulk; anecdote re. a Smoke Abatement Society conference; describes a female Hall of Residence; vegetables bought from Askham Bryan College (agricultural college connected to the University); anecdotes relating to members of the University's teaching staff, students and external examiners; ceremonial functions and working with the Vice-Chancellor's secretary, Miss Selby; ceremonial dinner service, food and dinner preparations; dinner invitations; Town and Gown dinners; menus; University Council and Senate dinner; the Vice-Chancellor's wife; subscription dinner; evening
receptions for staff; ordering wines; guests at ceremonial dinners.
Informant continues with anecdotes relating to University dinner functions, the Vice-Chancellor, Colonel Tetley and the Duke of Devonshire; drinks bill; wine; thefts and security; catering staff hierarchy; the chef; training/testing servery maids in using a coffee machine; Dorothy Una Ratcliffe (Lord Brotherton's niece) and the building of the Brotherton Library; Lord Brotherton's instructions for the Brotherton Room and his Librarian; anecdotes relating to the opening of the Brotherton Library.
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