Survey of English Dialects recording in Kinlet, Shropshire
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Type of record: Archive
Title: Survey of English Dialects recording in Kinlet, Shropshire
Classmark: LAVC/SRE/D/2/D162
Site Location(s): Place name - Kinlet, Shropshire, England, United Kingdom( 52.4197, -2.41461 )
Date(s): Jan 1955
Language: English
Size and medium: [Side 1] 04 min. 40 sec.; [Side 2] 04 min. 20 sec.
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/726541
Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
1 - Survey of English Dialects recording in Kinlet, Shropshire
2 - Survey of English Dialects recording in Kinlet, Shropshire
Description
[Side 1] William recalls 'thrashing' [= threshing] by hand, explains use of 'thrail' [= flail] and 'nile' [= striking part of flail], discusses harvesting by hand and comments younger generation no longer know how to cut sheaf, explains traditional method of building 'rick' [= haystack]. [Side 2] William explains how to thatch 'rick' [= haystack], incl. use of pegs and 'hay-bands' [= rope of twisted straw used to bind bundle of hay], discusses storage of grain and journey to flour-mill to grind wheat.
Biography or history
William b. Kinlet, aged 85, local school till aged 12, whole life in Kinlet; father b. Kinlet; mother b. Kinlet; wife b. Kinlet.
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78 r.p.m., cellulose nitrate on aluminium
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