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Survey of English Dialects recording in Goudhurst, Kent

Archive Item: LAVC/SRE/D/2/D286 Contains digital media

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Type of record: Archive

Title: Survey of English Dialects recording in Goudhurst, Kent

Level: Item

Classmark: LAVC/SRE/D/2/D286

Site Location(s): Place name - Goudhurst, Tunbridge Wells, Kent, England, United Kingdom( 51.1131, 0.45615 )

Date(s): Nov 1958

Language: English

Size and medium: [Side 1] 05 min. 12 sec.; [Side 2] 05 min. 00 sec.

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/726665

Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture

1 - Survey of English Dialects recording in Goudhurst, Kent

2 - Survey of English Dialects recording in Goudhurst, Kent

Description

[Side 1] Frank recalls powdering hops through night, recalls farmer sub-contracting young farm workers to County Council to work on roads in winter, tells anecdote about improving dangerous road junction following fatal car accident. [Side 2] Frank recalls helping tie waistbands in hop-gardens before and after school with brother and mother to supplement father's wages, reflects on discipline at home and at school incl. regular corporal punishment for being late to school, tells anecdote about taking horse to forge for shoeing after school and losing control of it when returning home and beating it in stable.

Biography or history

Frank b. Goudhurst, aged 67, whole life in Goudhurst except during WW1; father b. Goudhurst, farm worker; mother b. Goudhurst, farm worker; wife b. Goudhurst.

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

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