Sound Recordings, Lincolnshire
Description
Marjorie Sutton [collector's grandmother] and Irvin Sutton [collector's father] discuss pig-killing at Christmas; Lincoln butter market - travelling from Wragby to sell produce; Christmas parties - games played; card parties (young men). [Tr. 2] Marjorie Sutton continues, with talk of belief in Santa Claus; present giving - recollections from c. 1904; travelling to the Pupil Teacher Centre in Louth; Christmas food; recollections of Christmas in the 1930s [preceded by an announcement by the collector]; effect of World War Two on Christmas. Recorded in Wragby on 2 January 1979. [Tr. 3] [Collector announcement: dates, ages of informants, location]: Mary Kent and Charles Kent [collector's uncle and aunt; collector's mother, Beryl Sutton, also present] talk about Christmas in the past - watching Lincoln Football Club on Christmas Day; playing cards; Christmas dinner and preparations for Christmas Day; presents; belief in Father Christmas; carol singing; parties; rabbiting on Boxing Day (with ferrets); singing around the piano; mother's Christmas at Benniworth and her move to Wickenby in 1938; pig-killing; preparing geese, chickens and ducks for local people. Recorded Buslingthorpe (Lincolnshire) on 4 January 1979. [Tr. 4]
Metadata
| Identifier | pb6xg4fy |
| IRN | 414086 |
| Class Mark | LAVC/SRE/A036 |
| Level | Item |
| Type of Record | Archives - ISAD(G) |
| Peristent Link | http://prototype1.library.leeds.ac.uk/pb6xg4fy |
| Collection(s) | Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture |
| Category | Archive |
| Parent Record | Audiotape Sound Recordings |
| Creator(s) | Sutton, Diane |
| Date | 2 Jan 1979 - 4 Jan 1979 |
| Size and Medium | 1 audiocassette., Duration: 34' 48". |