Survey of English Dialects recording in Pitminster, Somerset
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Type of record: Archive
Title: Survey of English Dialects recording in Pitminster, Somerset
Classmark: LAVC/SRE/D/2/D268
Site Location(s): Place name - Pitminster, Somerset, England, United Kingdom( 50.9675, -3.11132 )
Date(s): Jul 1956
Language: English
Size and medium: [Side 1] 03 min. 57 sec.; [Side 2] 04 min. 45 sec.
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/726647
Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
1 - Survey of English Dialects recording in Pitminster, Somerset
2 - Survey of English Dialects recording in Pitminster, Somerset
Description
[Side 1] Clara reflects on lack of sick pay in past, recalls mother frequently helping at births, discusses severe winters incl. walking to Blagdon to fetch bread, compares standard of living and relationships between working class and gentry now and in past, briefly mentions Sunday school teacher. [Side 2] Clara talks about 'short cheese' [= hard cheese] and blue cheese, recalls getting 'hiding' [= beating, thrashing] for getting wet (in stream?) on way home from school, memories of Club walk incl. swing-boats and 'standings' [= stalls] selling 'fairings' [= gingerbread] and 'conference' [= type of round, hard sweet], discusses home-made cider, mentions father's job as wood-cutter in winter and farm worker in summer and prize for long service, compares cost of living now and in past, recalls fetching coal from station by horse and cart, recalls farm workers drinking two quarts of cider a day from 'firkin' [= cask] re-filled every morning, mentions wages in past of shilling a day.
Biography or history
Clara b. Pitminster, aged 80, local school till aged 12, whole life in Pitminster except 18 months at Stogumber; father b. Somerset, wood-cutter & farm worker; mother b. Somerset; husband b. Shepton Beauchamp.
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78 r.p.m., cellulose nitrate on aluminium
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