Sound Recordings, England
Details
Type of record: Archive
Title: Sound Recordings, England
Classmark: LAVC/SRE/A637r
Creator(s): Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)
Site Location(s): Subject - Altarnun, Cornwall, England, United Kingdom( 50.6046, -4.51224 ); Subject - Brigham, Allerdale, Cumbria, England, United Kingdom( 54.6589, -3.41648 ); Subject - Eccleston, Chorley, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom( 53.6424, -2.72162 ); Subject - Golcar, Kirklees, West Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom( 53.6399, -1.8557 ); Subject - Horam, Wealden, East Sussex, England, United Kingdom( 50.9352, 0.24436 ); Subject - Kingston, Dorset, England, United Kingdom( 50.6164, -2.06213 ); Subject - Lapley, South Stafford, Staffordshire, England, United Kingdom( 52.7141, -2.18775 ); Subject - Sulgrave, South Northampton, Northamptonshire, England, United Kingdom( 52.1039, -1.18712 ); Subject - Wearhead, Stanhope, Durham, England, United Kingdom( 54.75, -2.21667 ); Subject - Welwick, Beverley, East Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom( 53.6682, 0.03155 ); Subject - Wragby, Lincolnshire, England, United Kingdom( 53.2833, -0.3 ); Subject - Mendlesham, Suffolk, England, United Kingdom( 52.2501, 1.0813 )
Date(s): [1950s/1960s]
Size and medium: 1 x 12.7cm open reel spool; Duration: 22' 38".
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/414688
Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
Description
Compilation of extracts from field recordings made as part of the Survey of English Dialects. These extracts were copied from gramophone disc recordings, with announcements by Stanley Ellis .
A speaker from Brigham (Cumberland) talks about a swarm of bees. [Tr. 3]
A speaker from Wearhead (County Durham) talks about weather forecasting. [Tr. 4]
A speaker from Eccleston (Lancashire) talks about mechanisation and the decline of the coal mining industry. [Tr. 5]
A speaker from Welwick (East Riding of Yorkshire) describes the process of making bread. [Tr. 6]
Mr. Gledhill from Golcar (West Yorkshire) talks about visits to Blackpool, new clothes at Whitsun and travelling to Huddersfield. [Tr. 7]
A speaker from Wragby (Lincolnshire) talks about ploughing with horses, reaping and binding. [Tr. 8]
A speaker from Lapley (Staffordshire) describes how to lay a hedge. [Tr. 9]
A speaker from Sulgrave (Northamptonshire) talks about parish relief. [Tr. 10]
A speaker from Mendlesham Green (Suffolk) talks about crops, harvesting and the use of a scud winder in securing a haystack. [Tr. 11]
A speaker from Horam (East Sussex) talks about cutting and binding straw. [Tr. 12]
A speaker from Kingston (Dorset) talks about ploughing with horses; reaping and mowing; binding. [Tr. 13]
A speaker from Altarnun (Cornwall) talks about road mending. [Tr. 14]
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