Sound Recordings, West Yorkshire

Description

First part of this tape comprises a compilation of extracts from the collector's fieldwork recordings in Birdsedge (principally, clapping and skipping rhymes). [Tape labelled demonstration.] [Tr. 1] The second part of the tape contains a recording, made in Birdsedge, of Mrs. Smith, talking about the games she played in her childhood at Denby School, West Yorkshire, in the 1930s. Describes the game 'Dick, Pick, Palony'; the summer shuttlecock season, bullies (hoop and stick), cardboard sledges in the summer, 'King William' singing/ring game, 'Big Ship Sails'; 'Nuts in May' ring game; hopscotch; skipping rhymes, including 'Tinker Tailor'; ball bouncing games; describes Birdsedge First School - originally separate playgrounds for boys and girls (same at Denby); counting-out rhymes 'One Potato, Two Potato' and 'Eeny, Meeny'; no games played by informant at Scissett (Secondary) School; talks of 'London Bridge is Falling Down', 'Oranges and Lemons' and 'The Grand Old Duke of York'; country dancing at both Birdsedge and Scissett schools. [Tr. 2] 6 of 9.

Metadata

Identifier nzpsp163
IRN 414132
Class Mark LAVC/SRE/A082
Level Item
Type of Record Archives - ISAD(G)
Peristent Link http://prototype1.library.leeds.ac.uk/nzpsp163
Collection(s) Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
Category Archive
Parent Record Audiotape Sound Recordings
Creator(s) Cooke, Jane A
Date [1979-1980]
Size and Medium 1 audiocassette., Duration: 34' 31".

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