Sound Recordings, West Yorkshire
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Type of record: Archive
Title: Sound Recordings, West Yorkshire
Classmark: LAVC/SRE/A770r
Creator(s): Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)
Site Location(s): Subject - Golcar, Kirklees, West Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom( 53.6399, -1.8557 ); Subject - Heptonstall, West Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom( 53.7491, -2.02093 )
Date(s): [1960s]
Size and medium: 1 x 17.8cm open reel spool; Duration: 66' 37".
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/414821
Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
Description
James Gledhill, recorded in Golcar; talks about working in a woollen cloth textile mill - processes, differences between spinning/producing woollen and worsted materials; leisure time, including a description of the game knur and spell; World War One and the loss of men from the area; Golcar characters; young lads' practical jokes; Bonfire Night and collecting wood; Mischief Night and tricks; working day/week; working nights/shifts; slump in trade after World War One; standards of living (past and present); housing/living conditions; local food dishes; local villages and blason populaire; ?Mills Bridge (Brigg) Fair; cricket; Standard Fireworks factory; pigeon shooting, rabbit coursing and cock fighting; family nicknames; Golcar's changing population; names of old Golcar families; Huddersfield market. [Tr. 1]
Hollins Smith, recorded in Heptonstall; talks of farming; dairy inspections and milk deliveries; milking cows as a boy; stone picking; childhood jobs in a local ?mill and at a quarry; throughs (stones) in drystone walls; Black Dyke farm and the coming of electricity; mother's baking; salting/curing bacon and ham; sheep; condition of the roads in the past; milking cows; seeing his first motor car; thoughts on modern pace of life; childhood; humorous stories of local people. [Tr. 2]
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