Sound Recordings, Derbyshire and Staffordshire
Description
[Collector announcement]; Jim Driver, recorded in Charlesworth in May 1965; talks about his working life, including ropemaking; starting work at the age of 22/23; cotton rope and its use; his family; schooling; the village of Charlesworth; working in a Welsh gunpowder factory; splicing a rope; a mill in Todmorden; working in Ireland; work injury; closure of the ropemakers' in the area; other employers in the area; travelling to Glossop for work; Manchester during World War Two; working during blackouts in South Wales; working in Dover during wartime. [Tr. 5] [Collector announcement]; Sid Carter, recorded in Wigginton in June 1965; talks about the village and its population; his father; local dialect; employment in the area - factories in Tamworth; the closure of coal mines; in-comers from Birmingham; (winter) weather; changes in the village; local expressions; the local school, past and present; family; surface work at a coal mine; coal strikes in 1921 and 1926; housing; education; mother and grandmother; Christmas charity; mother's farm work (haymaking); Mr. Carter's work at Kingsbury Colliery - working day, travel, wages. [Tr. 6]
Metadata
| Identifier | hgzr9gnv |
| IRN | 414893 |
| Class Mark | LAVC/SRE/A842r |
| Level | Item |
| Type of Record | Archives - ISAD(G) |
| Peristent Link | http://prototype1.library.leeds.ac.uk/hgzr9gnv |
| Collection(s) | Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture |
| Category | Archive |
| Parent Record | Audiotape Sound Recordings |
| Creator(s) | Siporin, Rae Lee |
| Date | 1965 |
| Size and Medium | 1 x 12.7cm open reel spool, Duration: 68' 53". |