Sound Recordings, Lancashire

Description

Continuation of interview, started on tape A019, with ? Frank Hartley in Preston, regarding the Preston Guild of 1972 - local reaction after the event, cost of the event and commercial benefits, publicity (national coverage), family involvement, community involvement, schools' reactions to involvement, discussion re. recording the event (photographs). [Tr.1] Male informant [? Mr. Ashton] talks about the Preston Guild - commercial aspect/traditional historical aspect, continuity and change, women as Guild Freeman, importance of tradition, pageantry and festivity as necessary element; updating of the Guild, Schools' Festival; comparison with the 1952 Guild; publicity; history; immigrant population and their involvement. [Interview conducted in a public house.] [Tr. 2] [Concludes on tape LAVC/SRE/A021, AC008, Tr. 3]. 2 of 4.

Metadata

Identifier j4st2n21
IRN 414070
Class Mark LAVC/SRE/A020
Level Item
Type of Record Archives - ISAD(G)
Peristent Link http://prototype1.library.leeds.ac.uk/j4st2n21
Collection(s) Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
Category Archive
Parent Record Audiotape Sound Recordings
Creator(s) Monaghan, Ann M
Date 1973
Size and Medium 1 audiocassette., Duration: 63' 56".

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