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Dialect recording in Montacute, Somerset

Archive Item: LAVC/SRE/D/2/D270 Contains digital media

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Type of record: Archive

Title: Dialect recording in Montacute, Somerset

Level: Item

Classmark: LAVC/SRE/D/2/D270

Site Location(s): Place name - Montacute, Somerset, England, United Kingdom( 50.95, -2.71667 )

Date(s): 05 Jun 1952

Language: English

Size and medium: [Side 1] 04 min. 18 sec.; [Side 2] 01 min. 53 sec.

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/726649

Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture

1 - Dialect recording in Montacute, Somerset

2 - Dialect recording in Montacute, Somerset

Description

[Side 1] Bill talks about harvesting by hand, reflects on gradual introduction of mechanisation incl. side rake, describes loading and unloading waggon by hand prior to building 'rick' [= stack of corn/hay], recalls subsequent introduction of 'elevator' [= machine used for raising hay/straw to top of stack], comments on recent introduction of pick-up baler, considers ricks produce better hay than bales, reflections on farming now and in past. [Side 2] Bill talks about harvesting potatoes by hand in past, discussion of local dialect incl. demonstration of use of 'utch' [= I].

Biography or history

Bill b. Merriott, aged 57, local school till aged 13, whole life in Merriott except 4 years during WW1; father b. Merriott, village pounder & farm bailiff; mother b. Merriott; wife b. Devon. Arthur b. Merriott, aged 50, local school till aged 12, whole life in Merriott; father b. Merriott, village pounder & farm bailiff; mother b. Merriott; wife b. London.

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

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