Sound Recording, Staffordshire
Description
[Collector announcement]; Charles Brown, recorded in Stoke-on-Trent; gives answers to the collector's questionnaire concerning language and terminology associated with the butchering trade. Questions relate to beef, lamb, pork and poultry, and the answers include the names given to animals of differing ages, meat cut terms, terminology for slaughtering and slaughtering methods, the processing and preparation of carcasses, meat storage and preservation, meat processing equipment/implements, blood products and other meat by-products. The collector refers to numbered diagrams, to elicit answers concerning meat cut terms. The interview also includes reference to the price of cattle; assessing customers and the meat supplied to them; how the cut sirloin came to be so named; comparison of meat cut names in the Potteries and Birmingham; family history and the informant's father's apprenticeship in the 1860s; Christmas trade and changing consumer preferences. Continues on tape LAVC/SRE/A710r. 14 of 24.
Metadata
| Identifier | zjpx5ymh |
| IRN | 414760 |
| Class Mark | LAVC/SRE/A709r |
| Level | Item |
| Type of Record | Archives - ISAD(G) |
| Peristent Link | http://prototype1.library.leeds.ac.uk/zjpx5ymh |
| Collection(s) | Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture |
| Category | Archive |
| Parent Record | Audiotape Sound Recordings |
| Creator(s) | Upton, Clive S |
| Date | [Mid-1970s] |
| Size and Medium | 1 x 12.7cm open reel spool, Duration: 97' 57". |