Survey of English Dialects recording in Uffington, Berkshire
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Type of record: Archive
Title: Survey of English Dialects recording in Uffington, Berkshire
Classmark: LAVC/SRE/D/2/D273
Site Location(s): Place name - Uffington, Oxfordshire, England, United Kingdom( 51.6025, -1.55997 )
Date(s): May 1959
Language: English
Size and medium: [Side 1] 05 min. 00 sec.; [Side 2] 05 min. 01 sec.
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/726652
Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
1 - Survey of English Dialects recording in Uffington, Berkshire
2 - Survey of English Dialects recording in Uffington, Berkshire
Description
[Side 1] George tells anecdote about selling cow to local farmer, recalls negotiating share of profit, describes typical feed and routine for cattle in past. [Side 2] George compares farming now and in past, reflects on decline in variety of farming locally, recalls volunteering as gunner in Royal Artillerry (1915).
Biography or history
George b. Uffington, aged 70, local school till aged 11, then farm worker;, whole life in Uffington except 10 years military service 1908-1918; father b. Uffington, farm worker; mother b. Uffington, farm worker.
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Physical and technical conditions
78 r.p.m., cellulose nitrate on aluminium
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