Sound Recording, Derbyshire

Description

Bernard Higgenbottom, recorded in Charlesworth [by male collector, from Canterbury]; talks about tenant farmers, Lord Edward Fitzalan Howard and rents; Lord Howard, second son of the 13th Duke of Norfolk, and his influence on the village and its environs; the use of local stone in buildings; reference to the demolition of Lord Howard's home, Glossop Hall, following the sale of the estate in 1924; Mr. Higgenbottom's family home; local nicknames (personal) and the passing on from generation to generation - explains some examples; seasonal workers and hawkers; Lord Howard and land ownership (much now in the Peak District National Park); reference to the song 'How are You Going to Keep them on the Farm?'; decline in agricultural labour after 1926/1927; his newsagents business; talk of local female author [? Clarice Davies] and her book 'North Country Bred'; corrections to some of the contents re. Charlesworth; reference to local brass bands, in Chisworth and Charlesworth; informant's quarry work, before taking on the newsagents business; talk of the collector's home in Canterbury; agriculture in the Charlesworth area; Bakewell market; pig keeping and killing; reference to the song 'When Raffertys Killed a Pig'; talk of work patterns and hours; Wakes and dobby horses; the pinfold and the holding of stray cattle/sheep (payment for release); Lord Howard and rules and regulations; thoughts on the village and the lack of change in the landscape, new buildings; Thomas Hardy and singing/music; brass band and the playing of 'Hail Smiling Morn' on New Year's Eve; carol singing throughout the night on Christmas Eve; church orchestras; Whit Saturday and Wakes Monday; local singers; Dinting Church string orchestra; local instrumentalists; church and chapel rivalries in the area; non-conformity; rebuilding of the Methodist chapel; non-conformist families in the area; the building of the church; Whit Saturday processions (church and non-conformists parading at different times); bleach works; Goodwin Purcell and his book Stone Upon Stone, and Church Management in the Present Day (Glossop, [1874]); children's games of peggyon the road; lack of road traffic [compares busy A626 now]; no bus service until 1923 [tape ends].

Metadata

Identifier ttcbgzlw
IRN 414898
Class Mark LAVC/SRE/A847r
Level Item
Type of Record Archives - ISAD(G)
Peristent Link http://prototype1.library.leeds.ac.uk/ttcbgzlw
Collection(s) Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
Category Archive
Parent Record Audiotape Sound Recordings
Creator(s) Massarella, Mr
Date [1960s]
Size and Medium 1 x 12.7cm open reel spool, Duration: 48' 35".

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