Survey of English Dialects recording in Blagdon, Somerset
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Type of record: Archive
Title: Survey of English Dialects recording in Blagdon, Somerset
Classmark: LAVC/SRE/D/2/D258
Site Location(s): Place name - Blagdon, Somerset, England, United Kingdom( 51.3269, -2.71731 )
Date(s): Jul 1956
Language: English
Size and medium: [Side 1] 05 min. 46 sec.; [Side 2] 05 min. 08 sec.
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/726637
Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
1 - Survey of English Dialects recording in Blagdon, Somerset
2 - Survey of English Dialects recording in Blagdon, Somerset
Description
[Side 1] George talks about sheep farming, discusses selling flock due to increasingly poor eyesight, recalls severe winters and struggling through snowdrifts to get to 'beasts' [= cattle] and horses. [Side 2] George recalls occasion when he and others had to dig channels through snow to deliver bread and supplies to isolated farms on Mendips, remembers icicles on telegraph wires and thick ice on road, compares farm work now and in past, discusses long days working with horses.
Biography or history
George b. Blagdon, aged 84.
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Physical and technical conditions
78 r.p.m., cellulose nitrate on aluminium
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