Survey of English Dialects recording in Edingale, Staffordshire
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Type of record: Archive
Title: Survey of English Dialects recording in Edingale, Staffordshire
Classmark: LAVC/SRE/D/2/D174
Site Location(s): Place name - Edingale, Lichfield, Staffordshire, England, United Kingdom( 52.7068, -1.68912 )
Date(s): 05 Jan 1955
Language: English
Size and medium: [Side 1] 04 min. 13 sec.; [Side 2] 04 min. 23 sec.
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/726553
Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
1 - Survey of English Dialects recording in Edingale, Staffordshire
2 - Survey of English Dialects recording in Edingale, Staffordshire
Description
[Side 1] Mr Johnson recalls fights between rival villagers at local fairs, talks about annual festivities, incl. Edingale Club (Whit Tuesday), Edingale Wake (annual hiring fair in June), memories of 'maypoling' [= tradition of dancing from house to house on 1st May] and 'clementsing' [= tradition of singing from house to house on St Clement's Day in return for apples and pears]. [Side 2] Mr Johnson talks about Tamworth Statutes (annual hiring fair), discuses farm wages, lists farms he worked at and describes people he worked for incl. family in Wellsborough who established Foster Brothers (British clothing retailer), briefly mentions working on railways.
Biography or history
Mr Johnson b. Edingale, aged 78, whole life in Edingale.
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78 r.p.m., cellulose nitrate on aluminium
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