Sound Recording, West Yorkshire

Description

Mrs. Wood, recorded in Birdsedge; gives biographical details and information on her schooling in Ridgeway, Derbyshire, and Sheffield; describes the school at Ridgeway and playtimes (in the mid 1940s); skipping together (with teachers, during wartime, and with parents at home in the evenings - summertime only); sledging in winter; explains 'Tiggy Relievo', ball bouncing games (individual/group), including 'One, Two, Three A' Leary'; describes party games, playground games 'Farmer's in his Den', boys and girls skipping together, playing 'Farmer Farmer'; skipping rhymes/games; general thoughts on childhood; end of rationing (sweets); clothing; teaching her children to skip, ball games; May Day - maypole, singing 'Maytime Playtime' at Birdsedge School - describes proceedings; Whitsuntide - new clothes, visiting relations and receiving threepenny bit; Whit Sings in Sheffield parks on Whit Monday; Birdsedge village - development of community; feeder villages for Birdsedge First School; population of the village - age range, occupations including farming, mill work in Denby Dale and Shepley; contemporary work patterns - farming, textiles; clapping games with rhymes - explains movements; counting-out rhyme, 'Ickle Ockle Chocolate Bottle'; dibbing; It/On distinction. [Recording level varies throughout - very low in places.] 4 of 9.

Metadata

Identifier pylrwg14
IRN 414130
Class Mark LAVC/SRE/A080
Level Item
Type of Record Archives - ISAD(G)
Peristent Link http://prototype1.library.leeds.ac.uk/pylrwg14
Collection(s) Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
Category Archive
Parent Record Audiotape Sound Recordings
Creator(s) Cooke, Jane A
Date [1979]
Size and Medium 1 audiocassette., Duration: 90' 31".

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