Sound Recordings, Derbyshire and Staffordshire
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Type of record: Archive
Title: Sound Recordings, Derbyshire and Staffordshire
Classmark: LAVC/SRE/A842r
Creator(s): Siporin, Rae Lee
Site Location(s): Subject - Charlesworth, High Peak, Derbyshire, England, United Kingdom( 53.4329, -1.99302 ); Subject - Wigginton, Oxfordshire, England, United Kingdom( 51.9973, -1.435 )
Date(s): 1965
Size and medium: 1 x 12.7cm open reel spool; Duration: 68' 53".
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/414893
Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
Description
[Collector announcement]; Jim Driver, recorded in Charlesworth in May 1965; talks about his working life, including ropemaking; starting work at the age of 22/23; cotton rope and its use; his family; schooling; the village of Charlesworth; working in a Welsh gunpowder factory; splicing a rope; a mill in Todmorden; working in Ireland; work injury; closure of the ropemakers' in the area; other employers in the area; travelling to Glossop for work; Manchester during World War Two; working during blackouts in South Wales; working in Dover during wartime. [Tr. 5]
[Collector announcement]; Sid Carter, recorded in Wigginton in June 1965; talks about the village and its population; his father; local dialect; employment in the area - factories in Tamworth; the closure of coal mines; in-comers from Birmingham; (winter) weather; changes in the village; local expressions; the local school, past and present; family; surface work at a coal mine; coal strikes in 1921 and 1926; housing; education; mother and grandmother; Christmas charity; mother's farm work (haymaking); Mr. Carter's work at Kingsbury Colliery - working day, travel, wages. [Tr. 6]
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9.5cm/sec. Tape split near the start of the Charlesworth interview.
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