Sound Recordings, West Yorkshire
Description
James Gledhill, recorded in Golcar; talks about working in a woollen cloth textile mill - processes, differences between spinning/producing woollen and worsted materials; leisure time, including a description of the game knur and spell; World War One and the loss of men from the area; Golcar characters; young lads' practical jokes; Bonfire Night and collecting wood; Mischief Night and tricks; working day/week; working nights/shifts; slump in trade after World War One; standards of living (past and present); housing/living conditions; local food dishes; local villages and blason populaire; ?Mills Bridge (Brigg) Fair; cricket; Standard Fireworks factory; pigeon shooting, rabbit coursing and cock fighting; family nicknames; Golcar's changing population; names of old Golcar families; Huddersfield market. [Tr. 1] Hollins Smith, recorded in Heptonstall; talks of farming; dairy inspections and milk deliveries; milking cows as a boy; stone picking; childhood jobs in a local ?mill and at a quarry; throughs (stones) in drystone walls; Black Dyke farm and the coming of electricity; mother's baking; salting/curing bacon and ham; sheep; condition of the roads in the past; milking cows; seeing his first motor car; thoughts on modern pace of life; childhood; humorous stories of local people. [Tr. 2]
Metadata
| Identifier | xb1kg22t |
| IRN | 414821 |
| Class Mark | LAVC/SRE/A770r |
| Level | Item |
| Type of Record | Archives - ISAD(G) |
| Peristent Link | http://prototype1.library.leeds.ac.uk/xb1kg22t |
| Collection(s) | Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture |
| Category | Archive |
| Parent Record | Audiotape Sound Recordings |
| Creator(s) | Ellis, Stanley |
| Date | [1960s] |
| Size and Medium | 1 x 17.8cm open reel spool, Duration: 66' 37". |