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Sound Recordings, County Durham and Northumberland

Archive Item: LAVC/SRE/A762r

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Type of record: Archive

Title: Sound Recordings, County Durham and Northumberland

Level: Item

Classmark: LAVC/SRE/A762r

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

Site Location(s): Subject - Eggleston, Durham, England, United Kingdom( 54.6356, -1.99457 ); Subject - Ellington, Northumberland, England, United Kingdom( 55.2167, -1.56667 )

Date(s): 1953-1954

Size and medium: 1 x 12.7cm open reel spool; Duration: 38' 57".

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/414813

Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture

Description

Male informant, recorded in Eggleston in 1954, answers a selection of questions from Books I-IX of the Dieth-Orton Questionnaire, used in the Survey of English Dialects. Following these questions, he and a female informant [his ?wife] talk about Allendale Town people. [Tr. 4]


Male informant, recorded in Ellington in 1953, answers a selection of questions from Books I-IX of the Dieth-Orton Questionnaire, used in the Survey of English Dialects. Following these questions, he and a female informant [his ?wife] talk about dialect, his brother, other local people and an open-cast mine [?in Ashington]. [Tr. 5]

Access and usage

Reproduction

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Physical and technical conditions

9.5cm/sec. High recording levels. Some distortion. Tape speed decreases during Ellington recording.

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