Survey of English Dialects recording in Whiteshill, Gloucestershire. Survey of English Dialects recording in Weobley, Herefordshire
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Title: Survey of English Dialects recording in Whiteshill, Gloucestershire. Survey of English Dialects recording in Weobley, Herefordshire
Classmark: LAVC/SRE/D/2/D229
Site Location(s): Place name - Whiteshill, Gloucestershire, England, United Kingdom( 51.7629, -2.23333 )
Date(s): 08-12 Dec 1955
Language: English
Size and medium: [Side 1] 05 min. 30 sec.; [Side 2] 05 min. 30 sec.
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/726608
Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
1 - Survey of English Dialects recording in Whiteshill, Gloucestershire. Survey of English Dialects recording in Weobley, Herefordshire
2 - Survey of English Dialects recording in Whiteshill, Gloucestershire. Survey of English Dialects recording in Weobley, Herefordshire
Description
[Side 1] Bill discusses living conditions in past incl. walking miles to look for walk in days before labour exchange, explains people produced own vegetables to supplement food, recalls cooking using 'trippet' [= trivet, apparatus for standing pot/kettle over open fire] and describes traditional open fireplace, talks briefly about work in building trade, mentions having to retire on advice of doctor due to ill health. [Side 2] Dod talks about traditional method of making cider, describes old-fashioned stone-mill with 'chase' [= stone trough in which apples are crushed by stones driven by horse], explains how pulp is transferred to 'hairs' [= hair cloth used in cider-press], briefly describes local method of 'pleaching' [= intertwining branches of brushwood to form/repair hedge] hedges, comments barbed wire not used locally until recently.
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Biography or history
Bill b. Whiteshill, aged 80, whole life in Whiteshill except 4 years as docker in Avonmouth during WW1; father b. Tetbury; mother b. Tetbury. Dod b. Weobley, aged 75, local school till aged 12.
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78 r.p.m., cellulose nitrate on aluminium
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