Sound Recording, West Yorkshire

Description

Children of Armley Park School in Leeds talk about children's reading and writing; where they live; tell jokes (including English/Irish/Scottish and rude); collector tells a joke; children discuss the collector's work and where she lives; talk of children's accidents/injuries; tell animal jokes; discuss word games (Ghost, Chinese Whispers, Hangman). The children continue with discussion of singing, home time, playing out and watching television; all play Chinese Whispers and Ghost; tell jokes (punchlines forgotten); talk of a number game; singing (including parodies); playing in derelict houses and graveyards; personal experience narratives - supernatural, skeletons, unexplained noises; thoughts on death. 1 of 3.

Metadata

Identifier xd646s7g
IRN 414705
Class Mark LAVC/SRE/A654r
Level Item
Type of Record Archives - ISAD(G)
Peristent Link http://prototype1.library.leeds.ac.uk/xd646s7g
Collection(s) Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
Category Archive
Parent Record Audiotape Sound Recordings
Creator(s) Thomson, Sydney
Date 15 November 1972
Size and Medium 1 x 12.7cm open reel spool, Duration: 95' 49".

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