| Description | Tracks 1 - 5: Actuality with a Yorkshire couple, 'Mr and Mrs Ashworth', and Charles Parker. Mrs Ashworth speaks about learning shorthand and secretarial work, in which job she felt that her accent was not refined enough. The couple describes people in their family and local community, including relating some of the sayings of Mr Ashworth's father.
Tracks 6 - 9: Actuality with 'Noel Moxon' and Charles Parker. Mr Moxon sings 'The Barnsley Anthem', a traditional local song, and then reads an extract from the Child Employment Commission (1842) which relates an accident at a coal mine, Parker directs him and records multiple takes.
Tracks 10 - 14: Actuality with an unidentified Yorkshire woman from the town of Jump, South Yorkshire, and Charles Parker. She describes the songs and the plays she would perform when wassailing at Christmas. The woman talks about who would get involved in the wassailing and where they would go to sing, perform and collect money. Parker and the woman discuss the difference between what she terms wassailing and mumming. They talk about local traditions at New Years. The sound level is very low on this recording.
Total: 32.29 mins
Dubber's reference number: PLA KF565D0065480 |