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Sound Recordings, Northumberland

Archive Item: LAVC/SRE/A684r

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Type of record: Archive

Title: Sound Recordings, Northumberland

Level: Item

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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Culture

Dialects

England

English Language - Dialects

English language

Folk Dancing

Folk Music

Folk songs, English

Language surveys

Northumberland

Singing

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