Sound Recordings, Derbyshire and Cheshire
Details
Type of record: Archive
Title: Sound Recordings, Derbyshire and Cheshire
Classmark: LAVC/SRE/A845r
Creator(s): Siporin, Rae Lee
Site Location(s): Subject - Charlesworth, High Peak, Derbyshire, England, United Kingdom( 53.4329, -1.99302 ); Subject - Burbage, High Peak, Derbyshire, England, United Kingdom( 53.25, -1.9333 ); Subject - Broadbottom, Greater Manchester, England, United Kingdom( 53.4406, -2.01118 )
Date(s): May 1965
Size and medium: 1 x 12.7cm open reel spool; Duration: 61' 54".
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/414896
Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
Description
[Collector announcement]; Mr. E. Nealey, recorded in Burbage; provides biographical information; makes reference to cockfighting; an Endowed School; selling newspapers at the age of nine; aunt and uncle, poultry dealers; Buxton lime quarry; farming; walking to Buxton (before introduction of a bus service); shepherding on moors near Burbage; family in Lancashire; service during World War One, in France and Belgium; hospitalisation and subsequent transfer back to England; Buxton (Cottage) Hospital; informant's health. [Tr. 5]
Bernard Higgenbottom, recorded in Charlesworth; discusses sayings, including weather rhymes [gives examples]; reflections on local characters; tenant farmers and rentals; the Whitsuntide procession and thoughts on the progress and maintenance of institutions/aspects of rural life; family's newsagent business; Whitsuntide procession; thoughts on the dropping of customs; youngsters leaving the area and the affect on the village of the future; thoughts on the value of education. [Tr. 6] Mr. Higgenbottom is also recorded on tape LAVC/SRE/A847r.
Arthur Hilton, recorded in Broadbottom [wife and grand-daughter also present]; talks about moving to the village; working in a textile print shop; the weather; names for different employees in a cotton factory; working for the Corporation (water supplies); interest in birds; talk of bird names; local pronunciations, placenames and word usage; sport - football in Glossop, playing cricket for Charlesworth village; hours of work and wages in the textile industry; working hours affected by water supply to drive the mill's turbines/electricity dynamo; working in the dye shop; other work on the railway (shunting, portering), lamp lighting and electrical work; talk of Lawrence Earnshaw, inventor, buried in Mottram; lists local textile mills; ? Shaw and valves for brass (musical) instruments; Mottram Church and Sunday School visits; reference to an election poster of 1911 and Chinese slavery; house rents when first moved to Charlesworth; wages and hours of work (past/present); house prices;
pronunciations, local words and expressions; [collector announcement]. [Tr. 7]
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