The Greenwood Manuscript
Description
This file contains a photocopy of a manuscript compiled by Harry Greenwood of Heptonstall, West Yorkshire, being memoirs of local life and traditions prior to World War Two. The manuscript appears to have been written in the late 1960s and early 1970s, and includes information on farm life, Blackshaw Head Chapel and churchgoing, village life, cattle fairs, serving in the Army (Royal Garrison Artillery) during World War One, pace-egging, songs, rhymes, sayings, tales and dialect recitations. This also includes photocopies of a 19th-century dialect article extracted from an unidentified newspaper, an article on the local railway from ca. 1912, and Mr. Greenwood's victory bond, issued in 1923. The text is also interspersed at intervals with proverbs, sayings and short rhymes. The recollections were written down as they were remembered, and although largely chronological, the manuscript does not adhere to a strict chronology. Following Mr. Greenwood's ms. text is a photocopy of a published pamphlet containing a collection of stories and folklore items from Hardcastle Crags, with a guide to the Crags and Heptonstall (23 pp.). An ms. note in the file, in the hand of Tony Green, refers to plans for publishing the Greenwood Manuscript in conjunction with the Arvon Foundation.
Metadata
| Identifier | wf6k4ktx |
| IRN | 410545 |
| Class Mark | LAVC/FLF/1/3/4 |
| Level | File |
| Type of Record | Archives - ISAD(G) |
| Peristent Link | http://prototype1.library.leeds.ac.uk/wf6k4ktx |
| Collection(s) | Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture |
| Category | Archive |
| Parent Record | Regional Social Histories |
| Creator(s) | Greenwood, Harry |
| Date | [1970s] |
| Size and Medium | 1 file of photocopied papers; 101, [22] leaves. |