Sound Recording, West Yorkshire

Description

Harry Hudson, recorded at home in Leeds on the 20th and 27th of November; talks about Leeds City Market; his first stall; work at a wholesale fruit firm; the Armyand World War One; buying his own business (wholesale fruit and vegetables); selling up; winning Pools; new business in the market (wholesale) just after World War Two; extension of business; mix of retail and wholesale; new wholesale market built elsewhere; working hours; new wholesale market and changes in the market at Kirkgate; diversity of market tenants; talks about owning wholesale and retail businesses; visiting growers; stocking; regulation of sales; pricing and market competition; customers; describes a typical working day thirty to forty years ago; casual stallholders at the market fifty years ago, including quack doctors; sales methods and working the crowd; types of business in the market. Good Friday morning - sale of fish and parsley only; closed Christmas Day; guarding of poultry by nightwatchmen; ratting dogs and patrol of market at night; Christmas trade; holly and mistletoe; flower imports; poultry (types) and game; describes an average Christmas dinner; commitment to job; traders' get togethers - outings, sports matches, dances, meetings; talks of the Market Traders' Association past and present; relationships between traders; pricing; occupational beliefs - selling goods, first bidders, bad and good alleys in the market; Saturdays and local producers selling home grown produce; bird market; busiest days; Big Loaf Day; biographical details - family, education, first jobs; market errand boy; starting own business aged twenty; working with his eldest son; women market traders; [collector announcement].

Metadata

Identifier s6mcqvvy
IRN 414664
Class Mark LAVC/SRE/A613r
Level Item
Type of Record Archives - ISAD(G)
Peristent Link http://prototype1.library.leeds.ac.uk/s6mcqvvy
Collection(s) Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
Category Archive
Parent Record Audiotape Sound Recordings
Creator(s) Hermansson, Nana
Date November 1969
Size and Medium 1 x 12.7cm open reel spool, Duration: 89' 00".

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