Sound Recordings, [Derbyshire]

Description

[Collector announcement: informant's name, year and place of birth]; Linda Aldcroft talks about her childhood Christmases in Altrincham (Cheshire) - preparations, including Stir Up Sunday (cake/pudding stirred), Advent, collecting holly; Christmas dinner, tea, bobbing for apples in the kitchen, songs, decorations, school parties, stocking and contents; children's party on Boxing Day; 'Miner's Dream of Home' record played on New Year's Eve [informant recites words]; decorations down on Epiphany, holly on the fire on Shrove Tuesday, and if cooking pancakes on a gas cooker, piece of holly saved to put on the gas under the pancakes. [Tr. 3] [Collector announcement: informants' names, years and places of birth]; Dennis Wright and Jean Wright [collector's parents], born Manchester and Stretford respectively, talk about Christmas preparations - pudding and mincemeat made in September, handmade decorations and Christmas cards, stocking contents, food (turkey and pork), games, tea, balloon game; New Year's Eve. [Tr. 4]

Metadata

Identifier tx365vmx
IRN 414095
Class Mark LAVC/SRE/A045
Level Item
Type of Record Archives - ISAD(G)
Peristent Link http://prototype1.library.leeds.ac.uk/tx365vmx
Collection(s) Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
Category Archive
Parent Record Audiotape Sound Recordings
Creator(s) Wright, Fiona J
Date December 1978
Size and Medium 1 audiocassette., Duration: 18' 10".

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