Grimston Village Hall hosts Food Museum Roadshow featuring Elsegood family's rare bygone interview

Grimston Village Hall was first on the menu for a Food Museum Roadshow on Saturday.

Vintage foodstuff items such as a harvest basket, meatless dishes recipe leaflet and Ministry of Food cooking calendar list lined up along bygone recordings of East Anglia folks and their dialects.

The Stowmarket, Suffolk-based Food Museum is touring its Food Stories exhibition around rural communities in East Anglia as a one of a kind event during April to June.

After a launch event the previous Thursday, Grimston was first on the menu thanks to Kate Knowlden, Food Museum curator, and Laura Kloss, a dialect and heritage project engagement officer.

Laura said: "The recordings are held at the University of Leeds, and it's rare to have them on display.

"They were all made in East Anglia and one of them was from Grimston, called Isaac Elsegood and the Elsegood family still own the butcher's shop in the village.

"The family came to listen to the recording."

Other members of Grimston families were interviewed in 1957 in an English dialect survey conducted by the University of Leeds, including Elijah Lake and William Saunders.

With the aid of National Lottery money, five partner museums are undertaking a nationwide dialect project.

A grant from the Headley Trust enabled a tour to be made.

The Food Museum, formerly the Museum of East Anglian Life, specialises in presenting the agricultural history of East Anglia through a mixture of exhibits and living history demonstrations.

Other dates on their tour can be found at – https://www.keepingintouchwith.co.uk/the-food-museum-is-coming-to-you/