Sound Recordings, Northumberland
Details
Type of record: Archive
Title: Sound Recordings, Northumberland
Classmark: LAVC/SRE/A684r
Creator(s): Orton, Harold (1898-1975)
Site Location(s): Subject - Acomb, Northumberland, England, United Kingdom( 54.9923, -2.11229 )
Date(s): [1960-1980]
Size and medium: 1 x 12.7cm open reel spool; Duration: 6' 27"
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/414735
Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
Description
Copy of disc recordings of three speakers from Acomb, made in the late 1930s as part of the Survey of Northumbrian Dialects conducted by Harold Orton during his time at Armstrong College, Newcastle-upon-Tyne. The date when this tape copy was made is not known.
[Collector announcement]; Joseph Henderson and Henry Henderson talk about entertainments and working life. [Tr. 3]
[Collector announcement]; Joseph Henderson and an unidentified male, recorded in Acomb Parish Hall on the 11 July 1939, talk about singing and dancing. One of them sings a song [unidentified]. [Tr. 4]
Access and usage
Reproduction
Access
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Physical and technical conditions
19cm/sec. Copy tape. Much distortion. Very difficult to hear the speakers' words.
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