Sound Recordings, Somerset and Gloucestershire
Details
Type of record: Archive
Title: Sound Recordings, Somerset and Gloucestershire
Classmark: LAVC/SRE/A636r
Creator(s): Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)
Site Location(s): Subject - Wedmore, Somerset, England, United Kingdom( 51.2273, -2.81152 ); Subject - Gretton, Gloucestershire, England, United Kingdom( 51.9719, -1.98921 ); Subject - Horsington, Somerset, England, United Kingdom( 51.0129, -2.42712 ); Subject - Stogumber, Somerset, England, United Kingdom( 51.1277, -3.29145 ); Subject - Stoke St. Gregory, Somerset, England, United Kingdom( 51.0403, -2.93111 )
Date(s): [1950s]
Size and medium: 1 x 12.7cm open reel spool; Duration: 19' 04".
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/414687
Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
Description
Compilation of extracts from field recordings made as part of the Survey of English Dialects.
Informant from Stogumber talks about cidermaking - factories and modern changes, the price of apples, cidermaking during the slump (?Depression), his orchard, making a cider cheese, the process of cidermaking, from vat to barrel; thoughts on (modern) dress and clothing.
Informant from Horsington talks about cowdogs [?coydogs] and the care of his pedigree dog's coat.
Informant from Wedmore talks about childhood practical jokes/pranks [?some on Mischief Night].
Informant from Gretton describes the construction of a hay rick, the use of wooden faggots and thatch; the difference between a corn and hay rick; the warmth of hay ricks.
Informant from Stoke St Gregory talks about food, farm wages (compared with carters and coalmen), changes in the cost of living, farmer's earnings, cider, attitudes of young people to work and money.
Provenance
The tape box is labelled Specimen dialect tape used at Bristol Museum 17.2.71.
Access and usage
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Physical and technical conditions
9.5cm/sec.
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