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Sound Recording, Northumberland

Archive Item: LAVC/SRE/A761r Contains digital media

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Type of record: Archive

Title: Sound Recording, Northumberland

Level: Item

Classmark: LAVC/SRE/A761r

Creator(s): Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)

Site Location(s): Subject - Embleton, Northumberland, England, United Kingdom( 55.4959, -1.63619 )

Date(s): April 1961

Size and medium: 1 x 17.8cm open reel spool; Duration: 14' 16".

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/414812

Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture

Description

[Announcement: probably recorded by Stanley Ellis in 1961 when he returned to check certain responses.]; Willie Pitt, retired farmworker and waggoner recorded in Embleton; talks about a recent shipwreck on the coast near Dunstanburgh Castle; recollections of shipwrecks in the past; Polish and Russian trawlers; the villages of Craster and Embleton; Craster kippers; dialect words (based on Survey of English Dialects questions); Berwick Cycling Club and riding penny farthings; schooling (aged 6-13); modern education.

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Physical and technical conditions

19cm/sec. Intrusive background/tape machine motor noise in parts.

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