Sound Recordings, County Durham
Details
Type of record: Archive
Title: Sound Recordings, County Durham
Classmark: LAVC/SRE/A851r
Site Location(s): Subject - Durham, County Durham, England, United Kingdom( 54.7768, -1.57566 ); Subject - Ebchester, Durham, England, United Kingdom( 54.883, -1.8333 )
Date(s): May 1974
Size and medium: 1 x 12.7cm open reel spool; Duration: 45' 59".
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/414902
Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
Description
[Collector announcement]; William Dodds, recorded at home in Ebchester on the 14 May 1974; examines and describes archaeological artefacts, excavated by him during the previous six years from the site of a Roman fort on his farm land [and now held in display cases], including pottery fragments, other artefacts, glassware and roofing tiles; talks of other archaeological excavations in the area in the 1930s; examines a millstone, finger and animal prints on pottery items; interest in the finds from the media, schools and students/staff at Durham University; interest in the land from a brewery; selling some of the land for housing; discusses Pot Leeks and showing leeks (September-November); informant dairy farming in Ebchester, and also working in a local iron works; talk of beer (Newcastle Brown Ale). [Tr. 7]
[Collector announcement]; George Brown, recorded at home in Ebchester on the 16 May 1974; [gap]; gives a message to Stanley Ellis; talks of Ellis and his caravan and when he came to interview Mr. Brown in 1953, as part of the English Dialect Survey; goes on to talk about working in a coal mine from the age of twelve (coupling tubs, watching doors and driving horses); pushing tubs, aged eighteen; hewing coal, aged twenty-one; accident at work in 1928 (broken leg through fall of stone); compensation claim (1931); gardening; allotments; growing leeks; collector talks of Mr. Brown's original Survey responses, and people's study of them at the University of Leeds. [Tr. 8]
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