Sound Recordings, Nottinghamshire and Lincolnshire
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Type of record: Archive
Title: Sound Recordings, Nottinghamshire and Lincolnshire
Classmark: LAVC/SRE/A726r
Creator(s): Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009); Siporin, Rae Lee
Site Location(s): Subject - Eastoft, North Lincolnshire, England, United Kingdom( 53.6344, -0.79613 ); Subject - Keelby, West Lindsey, North Lincolnshire, England, United Kingdom( 53.5758, -0.24701 ); Subject - North Wheatley, Bassetlaw, Nottinghamshire, England, United Kingdom( 53.3623, -0.85635 ); Subject - Oxton, Newark, Nottinghamshire, England, United Kingdom( 53.0553, -1.0628 ); Subject - Saxby, West Lindsey, North Lincolnshire, England, United Kingdom( 53.3667, -0.48333 ); Subject - South Clifton, Newark, Nottinghamshire, England, United Kingdom( 53.2222, -0.76965 ); Subject - Cuckney, Bassetlaw, Nottinghamshire, England, United Kingdom( 53.2353, -1.15575 )
Date(s): [1965-1980]
Size and medium: 1 x 7.6cm open reel spool; Duration: 49' 02".
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/414777
Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
Description
Compilation of Survey of English Dialects fieldwork recordings (copies) for Nottinghamshire locations 9Nt1-4, and Lincolnshire 10L1-3. The original recordings were made in 1952, 1956, 1957 and 1965. The date when this copy tape was made is not known.
[Collector announcement]; George Parr, a fruit farmer, recorded at home in North Wheatley; talks about land use around Wheatley; the effect of war on the price of fruit produce; labour costs; local cherry orchards; apple trees (grafting and pollination); types of apples. [Tr. 11]
[Announcement]; Reuben Shaw, a retired joiner, recorded at home in Cuckney; talks about cricket; playing football; cycling; cleaning the bikes of the Duke and Duchess of Portland; work as a joiner. [Tr. 12]
[Collector announcement]; Jack Taylor, a retired farmer, recorded at home in South Clifton; describes a ferry boat across the River Trent; the flooding of the village; mowing a field of grass by hand; ploughing; bird scaring. [Tr. 13]
[Collector announcement]; Percy Strutt, a retired farm worker, recorded at home in Oxton; talks about working with farm horses, and breaking them in. [Tr. 1]
[Collector announcement]; Thomas Dealtry, a retired farmer, and Mr. Greenside, a tailor, recorded in Eastoft; relate anecdotes concerning the punishment of a boy and a local preacher; talk also of playing cards. [Tr. 2]
[Collector announcement]; Harry Osgodby, a retired farmer, recorded in his home in Saxby [ Saxby All Saints?]; relates anecdotes concerning driving a waggon and horse. [Tr. 3]
[Collector announcement]; Charles Chapman, a retired railway worker, recorded in Keelby; talks about pig killing and salting; the meat from pigs; farm work as a child (hours and pay); the visit of the pig killer. [Tr. 4]
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Physical and technical conditions
9.5cm/sec. Copy tape. Very high recording levels on original recordings. Distortion of speakers' voices.
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