| Description | Tracks 1 - 6: Actuality with young women and men with Charles Parker in Holmfirth, West Yorkshire. The young people take turns to recite extracts from the verbatim accounts of children to the Child Employment Commission (1842) in their own Yorkshire accents, directed by Parker who records multiple takes. The extracts are about the education, working conditions and experiences for mining children at the time of the testimonies.
Tracks 7 - 13: Actuality with 'Wally Walker' (an 82 years old man from West Yorkshire), Charles Parker and an unidentified Yorkshire woman. They discuss the play 'Old Horse', where Walker would perform it and why they would perform it to raise money to take the local children on holiday. They discuss the meaning of the play and Walker recites and sings lines from the play and plays his concertina.
Total: 32.18 mins
Dubber's reference number: PLA KF571E0015780 |