Sound Recording, West Yorkshire
Description
Olive Metcalf, recorded at home in the Kirkstall area of Leeds; gives biographical details (born in the Bramley area of Leeds); recollections of baptism as a child; family; other Bramley families; Bramley Battery, Band, Carnival; Bramley area and changes; local characters; father's job as a coffin maker; funeral teas; cortege; tuberculosis and public health; anecdotes about a number of local Bramley people; raspberry picking; gas lighting and knockers up; father's practical joke on an apprentice, involving a corpse. Employment opportunities in Bramley (in the mill or Halliday's boot factory); thoughts on modern Bramley and changes; reference to long and short ginnels; women's clothing, as worn by OM's sister and aunt; education, discipline and corporal punishment; swimming and hygiene/infections; childhood visits to Blackpool, Mablethorpe and Cleethorpes; Boarding House holidays; thoughts on Yorkshire pudding and making it, tripe (cooking), tripe shop and butchers; first job as a winder at a local mill; hours of work; family - brothers to war, 1914; talk of midwifery and still born babies; infanticide; Whitsuntide treat as a schoolchild; parental control. Continues on tape LAVC/SRE/A596. 2 of 5.
Metadata
| Identifier | pj2tv4vv |
| IRN | 414646 |
| Class Mark | LAVC/SRE/A595 |
| Level | Item |
| Type of Record | Archives - ISAD(G) |
| Peristent Link | http://prototype1.library.leeds.ac.uk/pj2tv4vv |
| Collection(s) | Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture |
| Category | Archive |
| Parent Record | Audiotape Sound Recordings |
| Creator(s) | Morris, Patricia M |
| Date | [September 1981] |
| Size and Medium | 1 audiocassette., Duration: 94' 05". |