Survey of English Dialects recording in Eynsham, Oxfordshire
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Type of record: Archive
Title: Survey of English Dialects recording in Eynsham, Oxfordshire
Classmark: LAVC/SRE/D/2/D235
Site Location(s): Place name - Eynsham, Oxfordshire, England, United Kingdom( 51.7808, -1.37454 )
Date(s): 12 Jun 1952
Language: English
Size and medium: [Side 1] 03 min. 33 sec.; [Side 2] 05 min. 08 sec.
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/726614
Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
1 - Survey of English Dialects recording in Eynsham, Oxfordshire
2 - Survey of English Dialects recording in Eynsham, Oxfordshire
Description
[Side 1] Mrs. Newman compares stretcher-bearers carrying coffin to churchyard in past and use of hearse now, lists village activities incl. Women's Institute, comments on deline of Mother's Union, mentions football club and youth club. [Side 2] Mrs. Newman recalls witnessing chimney sweep climb own chimney in past, describes apparatus used to cook over open fire, recalls mother cooking stew, mentions courtship at blacksmith's shop, talks about milking cows and helping with foaling and calving during and immediately after war.
Biography or history
Mrs. Newman b. Eynsham, aged 61.
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Physical and technical conditions
78 r.p.m., cellulose nitrate on aluminium
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