Sound Recordings, [Cambridgeshire]
Description
[Collector announcement]; collector's grandmother [ recorded in Cambridgeshire]; offers childhood recollections of Christmas in the 1910s/1920s - presents, food and drink, supper, singsongs, games (charades, hunt the thimble), carol singers, Christmas pudding and sixpences; Christmas during World War One; decorations; commercialisation of Christmas; cards. [Tr. 4]; belief in Father Christmas; present-day Christmas; family centred; food, sweets, Sunday School; husband's Christmas traditions. [Tr. 5] [Collector announcement: informant collector's mother]; Gillian Lyons talks about childhood Christmases during the [Second World] War, in Aberystwyth - family centred, fondest memory [collector's edit, resumes with father also present]; party games, drink, charades (explanation/demonstration of) [collector announcement]; mother's thoughts on present-day Christmas - commercialisation, religious aspect. [Tr. 6] 2 of 2.
Metadata
| Identifier | chm2b7hv |
| IRN | 414091 |
| Class Mark | LAVC/SRE/A041 |
| Level | Item |
| Type of Record | Archives - ISAD(G) |
| Peristent Link | http://prototype1.library.leeds.ac.uk/chm2b7hv |
| Collection(s) | Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture |
| Category | Archive |
| Parent Record | Audiotape Sound Recordings |
| Creator(s) | Lyons, Margaret |
| Date | Dec 1978 |
| Size and Medium | 1 audiocassette., Duration: 60' 15". |