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