Survey of English Dialects recording in Llanellen, Monmouthshire
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Type of record: Archive
Title: Survey of English Dialects recording in Llanellen, Monmouthshire
Classmark: LAVC/SRE/D/2/D222
Site Location(s): Place name - Llanellen, Llanfoist Fawr, Monmouthshire, Wales, United Kingdom( 51.793, -3.01231 )
Date(s): 09 Dec 1955
Language: English
Size and medium: [Side 1] 05 min. 37 sec.; [Side 2] 04 min. 13 sec.
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/726601
Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
1 - Survey of English Dialects recording in Llanellen, Monmouthshire
2 - Survey of English Dialects recording in Llanellen, Monmouthshire
Description
[Side 1] Bill talks about badger baiting, describes typical layout of 'earth' [= badger's den], comments foxes often take over 'berry' [= rabbit burrow] or earth but smell of fox usually forces badger to leave, explains how dog is sent into earth to locate badger underground and 'bay' [= bark] to indicate where to dig, describes how badger often barricades hole with stones and tree bark. [Side 2] Bill recalls rearing fox cub found abandoned on mountain and keeping it for 3 years, eventually sold it to neighbour who returned it after she started keeping chickens, advertised it in newspaper as tame fox and sold it for £1 to owners who kept it in stable.
Biography or history
Bill b. Llanfoist, aged 74, local school till aged 12, whole life in Llanfoist; father b. Llanfoist; mother b. Llanfoist; wife b. Herefordshire.
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78 r.p.m., cellulose nitrate on aluminium
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