Sound Recording, West Yorkshire

Description

Dorothy Ibbotson, recorded at home in the Kirkstall area of Leeds; sings 'The Warrior's Little Boy' (learned from her grandmother), and talks about her attempts to trace the song's origins; gives biographical details; talks about her father (miner, farm labourer), siblings, the death of her mother, aged twenty-eight; experience of the workhouse at Northallerton, and a children's home; education; food at the children's home; father's remarriage and DI returning home; job keeping house for elderly couple; training for a job in service - prospects, pay; visiting prisoners of war at Northallerton; family relationships; meeting future husband and marriage in 1926; moving back to Leeds; work experience during World War Two; living in Lower Wortley - describes the area; moving to Kirkstall; moving to Burley - describes house and area; husband's work in a stone quarry, associated health problems, wages; DI working to supplement his income; baking day (Thursdays). Talk of lardy cakes; use of word love as term of address in Leeds; recollections of school; Christmas and New Year (coal and sixpence) traditions; Christmas cake; Christmas Eve; taster cakes (eating remains of cake mixture); types of food - Shouting Loaf, Yorkshire puddings, ?Blind Hash, scallops, sheeps heads, cheeks; changes in the standard of living; home remedies, inc. wart cures; goose grease; cooking rabbits; drink; talk of snecklifters, Mouse Pie, Yorkshire puddings; discusses old photographs of Leeds; spending money in the workhouse/children's home; Easter eggs and egg rolling. 5 of 5.

Metadata

Identifier gpct7blp
IRN 414649
Class Mark LAVC/SRE/A598
Level Item
Type of Record Archives - ISAD(G)
Peristent Link http://prototype1.library.leeds.ac.uk/gpct7blp
Collection(s) Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
Category Archive
Parent Record Audiotape Sound Recordings
Creator(s) Morris, Patricia M
Date October 1981
Size and Medium 1 audiocassette., Duration: 91' 38".

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