Sound Recordings, Lancashire and North Yorkshire
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Type of record: Archive
Title: Sound Recordings, Lancashire and North Yorkshire
Classmark: LAVC/SRE/A238r
Creator(s): Cook, Catherine
Site Location(s): Subject - Colne, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom( 53.8571, -2.16851 ); Subject - How Stean, North Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom ( 54.154, -1.86801 )
Date(s): 1970-1971
Size and medium: 1 x 12.7cm open reel spool; Duration: 44' 13".
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/414287
Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
Description
Mr. Exley, recorded in Colne (Lancashire), talks about his hobby collecting country stories; dialect in country humour; relates stories concerning a vicar and a villager, a farmer and a late farmworker; Viking/Nordic influence on Northern England (Lancashire/Yorkshire) dialect and placenames; lists Norse-influenced dialect words; story of Old Jackson of Arncliffe; story re. doctor/patient misunderstanding; old lady at Masham; doctor visiting old lady; Yorkshire sayings; anecdote re. Bishop of Bradford at Gunnerside; anecdote re. J. B. Priestley; anecdote re. coffin carrying in Swaledale; further anecdotes and sayings illustrating Dales' humour and practical jokes. [Tr. 4]
Mr. Weatherhead and George Coates, recorded in How Stean (North Yorkshire), tell a number of stories and anecdotes illustrating Yorkshire dialect and humour. [Tr. 5]
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