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Survey of English Dialects recording in Harmondsworth, Middlesex

Archive Item: LAVC/SRE/D/2/D256 Contains digital media

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Type of record: Archive

Title: Survey of English Dialects recording in Harmondsworth, Middlesex

Level: Item

Classmark: LAVC/SRE/D/2/D256

Site Location(s): Place name - Harmondsworth, Hillingdon, Greater London, England, United Kingdom( 51.4884, -0.47757 )

Date(s): 28 Apr 1952

Language: English

Size and medium: [Side 1] 04 min. 13 sec.; [Side 2]02 min. 53 sec.

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/726635

Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture

1 - Survey of English Dialects recording in Harmondsworth, Middlesex

2 - Survey of English Dialects recording in Harmondsworth, Middlesex

Description

[Side 1] John talks about farm horses, lists typical feed, comments on series of photographs showing horses at work, names parts of 'trace-harness' [= harness for horse pulling plough] incl. 'hames '[= each of two curved pieces of wood forming collar of draught horse] and 'crupper' [= leather strap buckled to back of saddle passing under horse's tail to prevent saddle from slipping forwards], names parts of 'shaft-harness' [= harness for horse pulling cart] incl. 'ridge-tree' [= chain from shaft to shaft over saddle] and 'wanty' [= band placed round horse’s belly to harness it to shafts of cart] and 'breeching' [= strong leather strap passing round breech of shaft-horse enabling it to push backwards]. [Side 2] John describes parts of farm-cart, identifies series of farm implements from photographs incl. 'drag' [= muck-fork], reflects on relationship between man and horse.

Biography or history

John b. Harmondsworth, aged 84, no formal education, learnt to write after joining Salvation Army aged 17; father b. Berkshire; mother b. Harmondsworth.

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78 r.p.m., cellulose nitrate on aluminium

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