Survey of English Dialects recording in Edingale, Staffordshire
Description
[Side 1] Mr Johnson recalls fights between rival villagers at local fairs, talks about annual festivities, incl. Edingale Club (Whit Tuesday), Edingale Wake (annual hiring fair in June), memories of 'maypoling' [= tradition of dancing from house to house on 1st May] and 'clementsing' [= tradition of singing from house to house on St Clement's Day in return for apples and pears]. [Side 2] Mr Johnson talks about Tamworth Statutes (annual hiring fair), discuses farm wages, lists farms he worked at and describes people he worked for incl. family in Wellsborough who established Foster Brothers (British clothing retailer), briefly mentions working on railways.
Metadata
| Identifier | ql7n32y1 |
| IRN | 726553 |
| Class Mark | LAVC/SRE/D/2/D174 |
| Level | Item |
| Type of Record | Archives - ISAD(G) |
| Peristent Link | http://prototype1.library.leeds.ac.uk/ql7n32y1 |
| Collection(s) | Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture |
| Category | Archive |
| Parent Record | English Dialect Sound Recordings (England and Wales) |
| Date | 05 Jan 1955 |
| Size and Medium | [Side 1] 04 min. 13 sec., [Side 2] 04 min. 23 sec. |