Survey of English Dialects recording in Earl's Croome, Worcestershire
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Type of record: Archive
Title: Survey of English Dialects recording in Earl's Croome, Worcestershire
Classmark: LAVC/SRE/D/2/D195
Site Location(s): Place name - Earl's Croome, Malvern Hills, Worcestershire, England, United Kingdom( 52.0788, -2.18736 )
Date(s): 12 Dec 1955
Language: English
Size and medium: [Side 1] 04 min. 31 sec.; [Side 2] 05 min. 14 sec.
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/726574
Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
1 - Survey of English Dialects recording in Earl's Croome, Worcestershire
2 - Survey of English Dialects recording in Earl's Croome, Worcestershire
Description
[Side 1] George talks about farm workers' daily intake of cider during haymaking in past, recalls farmer making 30 or 40 'hogshead' [= cask] each year and carrying two buckets on yoke and half-pint 'horn' [= flask] out to field, tells anecdote about being paid by farmer in 3d pieces. [Side 2] George tells anecdote about local character Jack White, recalls Jack visiting 'The Monkey' cider-house in Woodmancote after day's thatching then joining George's father to drInk home-made wine and was later found drunk in roadside ditch, George reflects on wages and working conditions now and in past, talks about keeping own pig and sharing allotment with neighbour to supplement income.
Biography or history
George b. Baughton Hill, aged 81, school at Earl's Croome till aged 11, whole life in Baughton Hill; father b. Baughton; mother b. Severn Stoke; wife b. Ripple.
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78 r.p.m., cellulose nitrate on aluminium
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