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Survey of English Dialects recording in Walton on the Hill, Surrey

Archive Item: LAVC/SRE/D/2/D276 Contains digital media

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Type of record: Archive

Title: Survey of English Dialects recording in Walton on the Hill, Surrey

Level: Item

Classmark: LAVC/SRE/D/2/D276

Site Location(s): Place name - Walton on the Hill, Reigate, Surrey, England, United Kingdom( 51.283, -0.24805 )

Date(s): 10 May 1952

Language: English

Size and medium: [Side 1] 02 min. 50 sec.; [Side 2] 03 min. 05 sec.

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/726655

Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture

1 - Survey of English Dialects recording in Walton on the Hill, Surrey

2 - Survey of English Dialects recording in Walton on the Hill, Surrey

Description

[Side 1] Ted recalls shooting buzzard in 1906 which was subsequently mounted and later recorded at Manor House, describes typical year as gamekeekper from rearing to shooting season and rabbiting. [Side 2] Ted talks about ploughing, explains how to set up field to plough one 'veering' [= ridge/interval between two furrows] per 'land' [= one of set of strips into which ploughed field is divided], recalls regularly helping thatch stacks for local farmers.

Biography or history

Ted b. Walton on the Hill, aged 85, local school till aged 12, whole life in Walton on the Hill; father b. Walton on the Hill; mother b. Walton on the Hill; wife b. Kent.

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

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