Sound Recordings, Liverpool, Manchester and Preston
Description
Peggy Meek describes egg customs - conkering, displaying decorated eggs, egg rolling on Easter Monday, ingredients for decorating eggs [informant is Secretary of the Cumberland and Westmorland Benevolent Society of Liverpool and District. Collector provides information at tape end]. [Tr. 4] Emma Vickers describes [ Burscough] Pace Egg Play - locations, origins/meaning of word pace; Easter food - Simnel cake, Hot Cross Buns, currant Shaddy; [Collector gives information at tape end: Informant is Chair of Burscough Latham Old Age Pensioners' Club]. [Tr. 5] Mr. W. I. Champion, of Walton-le-Dale near Preston, discusses English society - religion, [Preston] Guilds, Holy Days, Feasts, egg rolling, Pace Egg(ing); the Reformation; Preston and non-conformity; Easter Monday festivities in Preston - explains why peace egg - link with Catholic observances, symbolism; egg rolling and decorating; egg games; egg rolling in Avenham Park and Avenham Valley on Easter Monday - music and dance; significance of the custom; Anglo-Catholicism discussed. [Tr. 6] 2 of 3.
Metadata
| Identifier | dsgr4n84 |
| IRN | 414052 |
| Class Mark | LAVC/SRE/A002r |
| Level | Item |
| Type of Record | Archives - ISAD(G) |
| Peristent Link | http://prototype1.library.leeds.ac.uk/dsgr4n84 |
| Collection(s) | Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture |
| Category | Archive |
| Parent Record | Audiotape Sound Recordings |
| Creator(s) | Calvert, Valerie E |
| Date | April 1961 |
| Size and Medium | 1 x 7.6cm open reel spool, Duration: 44' 04". |