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Survey of English Dialects recording in Ansty, Dorset

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Type of record: Archive

Title: Survey of English Dialects recording in Ansty, Dorset

Level: Item

Classmark: LAVC/SRE/D/2/D289

Site Location(s): Place name - Ansty, Dorset, England, United Kingdom( 50.8251, -2.33779 )

Date(s): Dec 1956

Language: English

Size and medium: [Side 1] 05 min. 09 sec.; [Side 2] 05 min. 00 sec.

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/726668

Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture

1 - Survey of English Dialects recording in Ansty, Dorset

2 - Survey of English Dialects recording in Ansty, Dorset

Description

[Side 1] Jim recalls occasion when Ansty was snowed in for a week, remembers meeting baker to collect bread delivery and helping dig road out, reflects on rapid changes in village incl. increase of 'foreigners' [= incomers], talks about first jobs on farm incl. loading hay on waggons, comments father remembered cutting corn wth 'reap-hook' [= reaping hook], discusses harvesting by hand and building 'rick' [= stack of corn/hay] on 'staddle' [= raised platform on which stack is built to deter vermin]. [Side 2] Jim talks about catching badgers and foxes and selling skins, describes recent incident when fox attacked 'fowls' [= poultry], explains difference between badger occasionally killing poultry and devastation of fox attack, describes typical mole trap, recalls local farmers sharing threshing tackle, reflects on introduction of threshing machine and impact of agricultural contractors.

Biography or history

Jim b. Ansty, aged 70; local school till aged 13, whole life in Ansty; father b. Ansty; mother b. Ansty; wife b. Somerset.

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

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