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Sound Recordings, Cornwall

Archive Item: LAVC/SRE/A811r Contains digital media

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Type of record: Archive

Title: Sound Recordings, Cornwall

Level: Item

Classmark: LAVC/SRE/A811r

Creator(s): Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009); Wakelin, Martyn F

Site Location(s): Subject - Gwinear, Cornwall, England, United Kingdom( 50.1875, -5.36656 ); Subject - St. Buryan, Cornwall, England, United Kingdom( 50.0744, -5.6226 )

Date(s): March 1963

Size and medium: 1 x 17.8cm open reel spool; Duration: 39' 57".

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/414862

Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture

Description

[Collector announcement]; John Galsworthy, recorded at home in Gwinear on the 28 March 1963; answers a selection of questions from the Dieth-Orton dialect survey Questionnaire [various Books]; talks of a visit from a Yorkshireman, who discussed dialect with him; playing cricket; working life in mines, quarries and on the railway; turnpike roads; hedging; personal health; involvement with the Chapel and Sunday School; family; changes in the cost of living; changes in the village; reference to moon exploration. [Tr. 4]


[Collector announcement]; William Strick, recorded in St Buryan on the 30 March 1963; answers a selection of questions from the Dieth-Orton dialect survey Questionnaire [various Books]; talks about working on a dairy farm; butter; the cost of living, past and present compared; agricultural wages and the benefits of farmwork (provision of cottage, free milk and vegetables); working overtime; changes in purchasing power; working from the age of eight, with his father - cleaning turnips, picking potatoes; working with cattle, horses and pigs; modern interference with food; pig keeping; improvements in farming (working hours). [Tr. 5]

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