Sound Recordings, Derbyshire and Cheshire

Description

[Collector announcement]; Mr. E. Nealey, recorded in Burbage; provides biographical information; makes reference to cockfighting; an Endowed School; selling newspapers at the age of nine; aunt and uncle, poultry dealers; Buxton lime quarry; farming; walking to Buxton (before introduction of a bus service); shepherding on moors near Burbage; family in Lancashire; service during World War One, in France and Belgium; hospitalisation and subsequent transfer back to England; Buxton (Cottage) Hospital; informant's health. [Tr. 5] Bernard Higgenbottom, recorded in Charlesworth; discusses sayings, including weather rhymes [gives examples]; reflections on local characters; tenant farmers and rentals; the Whitsuntide procession and thoughts on the progress and maintenance of institutions/aspects of rural life; family's newsagent business; Whitsuntide procession; thoughts on the dropping of customs; youngsters leaving the area and the affect on the village of the future; thoughts on the value of education. [Tr. 6] Mr. Higgenbottom is also recorded on tape LAVC/SRE/A847r. Arthur Hilton, recorded in Broadbottom [wife and grand-daughter also present]; talks about moving to the village; working in a textile print shop; the weather; names for different employees in a cotton factory; working for the Corporation (water supplies); interest in birds; talk of bird names; local pronunciations, placenames and word usage; sport - football in Glossop, playing cricket for Charlesworth village; hours of work and wages in the textile industry; working hours affected by water supply to drive the mill's turbines/electricity dynamo; working in the dye shop; other work on the railway (shunting, portering), lamp lighting and electrical work; talk of Lawrence Earnshaw, inventor, buried in Mottram; lists local textile mills; ? Shaw and valves for brass (musical) instruments; Mottram Church and Sunday School visits; reference to an election poster of 1911 and Chinese slavery; house rents when first moved to Charlesworth; wages and hours of work (past/present); house prices; pronunciations, local words and expressions; [collector announcement]. [Tr. 7]

Metadata

Identifier l8t3fnj8
IRN 414896
Class Mark LAVC/SRE/A845r
Level Item
Type of Record Archives - ISAD(G)
Peristent Link http://prototype1.library.leeds.ac.uk/l8t3fnj8
Collection(s) Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
Category Archive
Parent Record Audiotape Sound Recordings
Creator(s) Siporin, Rae Lee
Date May 1965
Size and Medium 1 x 12.7cm open reel spool, Duration: 61' 54".

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