Sound Recording, West Yorkshire
Description
[Collector announcement]; male and female [informants on tapes LAVC/SRE/A571r - A573r], recorded in the home of the female's parents in Leeds; discuss courtship/marriage; thoughts on women asking men out/women proposing (in a leap year) [female informant's mother contributes]; love at first sight; Mr. Right/Miss Right; wedding venue(s) - church/Registry; reception and honeymoon - importance of; wishing on (friend's) wedding cake (divination); marriage agencies; female talks about her teenage activities with friends; joining the police; boyfriends; male's girlfriends; pub as a meeting place; parental controls during childhood; wedding costs. Both talk about the post-wedding/honeymoon routine (first week); house warming party; thoughts on why people marry; married life; children (outside marriage); divorce; the effects of marriage on behaviour/routine; what makes a good marriage; what is love; adjusting to married life; thoughts on living together rather than marrying; sex in marriage; leaving work - practical jokes on women leaving to get married (costumes made, decorations); preferences for where to live (in/around Leeds); living with parents after marriage; schooling - male and his siblings; his career and thoughts on engineering work, apprenticeship, training; joining the cadets aged fourteen; thoughts on the Army; redundancy and new job prospects; parents'/brother's occupations; careers advice; female on future work plans; male on married women working. 4 of 5.
Metadata
| Identifier | smg387gl |
| IRN | 414625 |
| Class Mark | LAVC/SRE/A574r |
| Level | Item |
| Type of Record | Archives - ISAD(G) |
| Peristent Link | http://prototype1.library.leeds.ac.uk/smg387gl |
| Collection(s) | Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture |
| Category | Archive |
| Parent Record | Audiotape Sound Recordings |
| Creator(s) | Neale, Brenda Ann |
| Date | 30 March 1976 |
| Size and Medium | 1 x 12.7cm open reel spool, Duration: 96' 30". |