Sound Recording, North Yorkshire
Description
Kit Calvert, recorded by himself at home in Hawes; recollects his childhood and the calendar custom known as New Year's Gifting - walking the village of Hawes, collecting gifts from villagers (pennies, oranges, treacle parkin); explains that the oranges were used in marmalade, the apples for pasties and the pennies went towards new clothes from the Clothing Club; sings a New Year's Gifting rhyme. [Tr. 1] Unidentified male [?possibly Kit Calvert, ?recorded in Wensleydale] talks about (Wensleydale) cheese and cheesemaking; lists varieties; details the size of the dairy/creamery of which he is manager; talks of the decline of farmhouse cheesemaking at home; recollects his aunt making her own cheese at home, including making her own rennet; compares modern methods of production with his aunt's method; compares modern and older stone cheese presses. [Tr. 2]
Metadata
| Identifier | w9k25xz2 |
| IRN | 414661 |
| Class Mark | LAVC/SRE/A610r |
| Level | Item |
| Type of Record | Archives - ISAD(G) |
| Peristent Link | http://prototype1.library.leeds.ac.uk/w9k25xz2 |
| Collection(s) | Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture |
| Category | Archive |
| Parent Record | Audiotape Sound Recordings |
| Creator(s) | Calvert, Kit |
| Date | [1960s] |
| Size and Medium | 1 x 12.7cm open reel spool, Duration: 9' 55". |