Survey of English Dialects recording in Harby, Leicestershire
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Type of record: Archive
Title: Survey of English Dialects recording in Harby, Leicestershire
Classmark: LAVC/SRE/D/2/D176
Site Location(s): Place name - Harby, Melton, Leicestershire, England, United Kingdom( 52.873, -0.89573 )
Date(s): 03 May 1956
Language: English
Size and medium: [Side 1] 05 min. 05 sec.; [Side 2] 04 min. 48 sec.
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/726555
Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
1 - Survey of English Dialects recording in Harby, Leicestershire
2 - Survey of English Dialects recording in Harby, Leicestershire
Description
[Side 1] Mr Kemp recalls 'clipping' [= shearing] by hand, talks about process of washing and dipping in past, detailed description of dipping and draining pool, discusses relative value of washed and unwashed fleece. [Side 2] Mr Kemp tells anecdote about catching elusive fox unaware chase was filmed, sister later saw film at cinema' in Leicester, recalls two incidents with difficult horses, remembers falling off former racehorse and helping to train parson's ex-army horse.
Biography or history
Mr Kemp b. Harby, aged 72, local school till aged 11, whole life in Harby; father b. Harby, waggoner; mother b. Stathern.
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Physical and technical conditions
78 r.p.m., cellulose nitrate on aluminium
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