Sound Recordings, Lancashire
Details
Type of record: Archive
Title: Sound Recordings, Lancashire
Classmark: LAVC/SRE/A864
Creator(s): Taylor, Monica
Site Location(s): Subject - Haslingden, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom( 53.7033, -2.32382 )
Date(s): [1970-1972]
Size and medium: 1 audiocassette.; Duration: 72' 46".
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/414915
Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
Description
Female informant [possibly the collector's mother], recorded in Haslingden ; talks about and recites a poem with the first line, At number one Bolton yard; sings 'Where oh where is my Norah?' [first line]; sings the last verse of 'Faithful Sailor Boy', and tells the story behind the song; sings a song sung by her mother, 'Down in Barnes Row' [first line]; talks about performing songs at family gatherings; recites verse said by her aunt ( 'I've just come away from the inquest'), and 'Where's thee daddy lad?' [Tr. 10]
Unidentified male informant tells two jokes relating to mills and mill workers. [Tr. 11]
Mr. Ramsbottom, recorded in Haslingden; talks about the decline of the cotton mills; automation of looms and weavers' reactions; militancy in cotton towns; blacklegs and pickets in the 1930s; falling wages, increasing workload during the Depression; the General Strike and the weavers' union; Sunday evening classes; housing conditions, water supply and sanitation; back-to-back housing; communal toilets; Methodists and Irish in Haslingden; the area around the Sheep Green; spinning at Halstead's mill; shoddy; man-made fibres; bed sheets made at Higham's Mill, Accrington; cotton twill sheets; changes in manufacturing quality. [Tr. 12]
Mrs. Warburton, recorded in Haslingden; talks about her working life in the cotton mills; her birthplace; starting work at the age of twelve, part-time in conjunction with school; tenting; overlookers; family; dancing; church [at this point the rapid playback speed means it is not possible to follow what the informant says]. [Tr. 13] [Gap]
Mrs. Warburton continues with talk of by-names and their use; Haslingden community; more on by-names and proper names; recitations [once again rapid playback speed from this point is such that the informant's speech can no longer be followed]. [Tr. 14]
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