Sound Recordings, West Yorkshire

Description

Foodways: informants [ Gladys Parker and her husband], recorded in Brighouse, talk about beer/wine making; Sowerby Bridge Dock Pudding; Christmas food - preparation, ingredients for Christmas meal; Easter food - Simnel Cake (Mothering Sunday); wedding cakes; birthday food; traditional remedies; pobs (bread and milk) for babies and those unwell; Whitsuntide treat - coffee and currant buns, games in local field; collecting food from local shops - treacle, vinegar, sugar, flour. Recorded 28 September 1976. [Tr. 3] Stella Cardus, of Halifax, describes a local grocer's shop - buying food ca. 1935; food preparation - cakes, fish; recollections of her grandparents and their foodways; pobs, bread and dripping, teatime. Recorded 29 September 1976. [Tr. 4] Gladys Parker sings 'On Ilkla Moor Baht 'at'. [Tr. 5]

Metadata

Identifier pshhlf4m
IRN 414077
Class Mark LAVC/SRE/A027
Level Item
Type of Record Archives - ISAD(G)
Peristent Link http://prototype1.library.leeds.ac.uk/pshhlf4m
Collection(s) Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
Category Archive
Parent Record Audiotape Sound Recordings
Creator(s) Starkey, Helen
Date 28 Sep 1976 - 29 Sep 1979
Size and Medium 1 audiocassette., Duration: 44' 34".

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