Sound Recordings, Lancashire
Description
Emma Vickers of Burscough talks about Burscough Fair; fortune telling with tea leaves and playing cards; good/bad luck - wedding cake, bouquets; Halloween parties at home - games; New Year traditions - Burscough Hornblowers; First Footing and beliefs regarding good/bad luck for the coming year; birth traditions; christening traditions; weddings - when, colours, sayings, rings, musicians, food, drink, (step) dancing at wedding feast, singing; funeral customs, beliefs, funeral tea. Reference to Croston, Ormskirk and Rufford. [Tr. 1] Female singing with accordion accompaniment [words indistinct]; male sings 'She's Only a Bird in a Gilded Cage' [with piano accompaniment] - audience joins in; woman sings pace egg song [with piano accompaniment]. [Tr. 2] Explanation of Pace Egg custom [in Burscough] - describes costumes, characters, quotes lines spoken, sings children's version of Pace Egg Play. [Tr. 3] 1 of 3.
Metadata
| Identifier | h96clytc |
| IRN | 414051 |
| Class Mark | LAVC/SRE/A001r |
| Level | Item |
| Type of Record | Archives - ISAD(G) |
| Peristent Link | http://prototype1.library.leeds.ac.uk/h96clytc |
| Collection(s) | Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture |
| Category | Archive |
| Parent Record | Audiotape Sound Recordings |
| Creator(s) | Calvert, Valerie E, Vickers, Emma |
| Date | April 1961 |
| Size and Medium | 1 x 7.6cm open reel spool, Duration: 32' 05". |