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Sound Recordings, West Yorkshire and Northumberland

Archive Item: LAVC/SRE/A775r

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Type of record: Archive

Title: Sound Recordings, West Yorkshire and Northumberland

Level: Item

Classmark: LAVC/SRE/A775r

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

Site Location(s): Subject - Heddon-on-the-Wall, Northumberland, England, United Kingdom( 54.9969, -1.79386 ); Subject - Thornton, West Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom( 53.7833, -1.85 )

Date(s): [1950s]

Size and medium: 1 x 17.8cm open reel spool; Duration: 47' 10".

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/414826

Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture

Description

Irvine Brooksbank, recorded in Thornton in May 1957; talks about the house in which he was born; working as a farm lad scaring birds; the farmer he worked for; local quarries and his father book keeping for other workers; Sunday School; Board School; Egypt [local placename] Chapel; residents/congregation in ?Kipping [?part of Thornton]; home bread making and wet yeast sold at the door (also skimmed milk); Mr. Brooksbank's siblings; unemployment and soup kitchens; quarries and quarrymen known as delves/delvers; describes various quarry jobs (e.g. stone dressers) and names for workers; quarries at Idle [?Bradford]; mother's child rearing; joining the Army in 1914. [Tr. 4]


Unidentified male, recorded in Heddon-on-the-Wall; answers a selection of questions from Books I-IX of the Dieth-Orton Questionnaire, used in the Survey of English Dialects. [Trs. 5-6]

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Physical and technical conditions

19cm/sec. Sticky splices and dry patches affect playback.

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