Survey of English Dialects recording in Little Harrowden, Northamptonshire
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Type of record: Archive
Title: Survey of English Dialects recording in Little Harrowden, Northamptonshire
Classmark: LAVC/SRE/D/2/D201
Site Location(s): Place name - Little Harrowden, Northamptonshire, England, United Kingdom( 52.3332, -0.72574 )
Date(s): Jul 1957
Language: English
Size and medium: [Side 1] 04 min. 58 sec.; [Side 2] 04 min. 12 sec.
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/726580
Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
1 - Survey of English Dialects recording in Little Harrowden, Northamptonshire
2 - Survey of English Dialects recording in Little Harrowden, Northamptonshire
Description
[Side 1] Bill talks about schooldays, recalls securing first job on day he left school, describes first jobs on farm incl. working in house and singling swedes, left job after six months, describes occasion when he had to rescue lost sheep in snow. [Side 2] Bill mentions mother's memory of baker once walking from Harrowden to Hardwick along top of hedges to avoid snow, discusses ploughing with horses, explains how to set field with sticks one 'chain' [= 66 feet] wide, describes how to deal with 'pike' [= 'narrow/wedge-shaped piece of land at edge of field'] and 'headland' [= strip of unploughed land at end of field ploughed at right angles last], talks about occasional difficult horse.
Biography or history
Bill b. Little Harrowden, aged 73, local school till aged 12, whole life in Little Harrwoden except 3 years during WW1; father b. Little Harrowden; mother b. Little Harrowden.
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78 r.p.m., cellulose nitrate on aluminium
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