Sound Recordings, Yorkshire
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Type of record: Archive
Title: Sound Recordings, Yorkshire
Classmark: LAVC/SRE/A769r
Creator(s): Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)
Site Location(s): Subject - Carleton, West Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom( 53.6755, -1.29244 ); Subject - Grassington, Craven, North Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom( 54.0714, -1.99822 )
Date(s): 1963
Size and medium: 1 x 17.8cm open reel spool; Duration: 45' 42".
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/414820
Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
Description
Bill Stevenson, recorded in Carleton on the 1 February 1963; talks about his upbringing in Carleton; his father; pig keeping and killing for Christmas; diet; local school; Mischief Night and pranks described; activities on Carleton green - ownership, Pinfold and Pinder, holding stray cattle, payment for release; village water supply; growth of the village; Darrington village; lists gentry once living in Carleton; mining in the area ( Pontefract); Ackworth School; the building of Carleton parish hall; thoughts on childhood; ice cream and okey pokey (difference - okey pokey only at the seaside). [Tr. 12]
Oswald Jacques, recorded in Grassington [?in 1963]; [recording takes place in a farm building]; Mr. Jacques describes the parts of a cow stall; talks about cows calving, premature/dead calves; luck stones; geese to prevent picking - premature calving; examines and discusses component parts of a farm cart; talk of sledges to transport brushes and bracken; peat cutting and burning; mowing hay, drying, turning and stacking; labour costs; hiring Irish labourers in the past - reference to hirings in Skipton. [Tr. 13]
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