Survey of English Dialects recording in Great Dalby, Leicestershire
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Type of record: Archive
Title: Survey of English Dialects recording in Great Dalby, Leicestershire
Classmark: LAVC/SRE/D/2/D180
Site Location(s): Place name - Great Dalby, Melton, Leicestershire, England, United Kingdom( 52.7229, -0.90032 )
Date(s): 04 May 1956
Language: English
Size and medium: [Side 1] 04 min. 15 sec.; [Side 2] 04 min. 05 sec.
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/726559
Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
1 - Survey of English Dialects recording in Great Dalby, Leicestershire
2 - Survey of English Dialects recording in Great Dalby, Leicestershire
Description
[Side 1] Frank recalls butcher slaughtering pig and describes troughs used in past for salting and curing 'flitches' [= sides of bacon], talks about home-cured bacon and ham, gives recipe for stuffed 'chine' [= meat around pig's backbone], briefly mentions father also worked as waggoner, recalls drinking 'small beer' [= weak/inferior quality beer] at work, describes using 'barm' [= brewer's yeast] for home brewing and baking, comments canal previously well used but now overgrown. [Side 2] Frank talks about pastimes in past including fishing on canal, cricket, 'duck-stone' [= traditional chase game] and marbles, reflects on leisure time now and in past.
Biography or history
Frank b. Kinoulton, aged 65, school at Kinoulton till aged 11, lived in Great Dalby since aged 15; father b. Kinoulton, farmer & waggoner; mother b. Stockerston.
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Physical and technical conditions
78 r.p.m., cellulose nitrate on aluminium
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