Survey of English Dialects recording in Portesham, Dorset
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Type of record: Archive
Title: Survey of English Dialects recording in Portesham, Dorset
Classmark: LAVC/SRE/D/2/D291
Site Location(s): Place name - Portesham, Dorset, England, United Kingdom( 50.6707, -2.56393 )
Date(s): Dec 1956
Language: English
Size and medium: [Side 1] 05 min. 12 sec.; [Side 2] 05 min. 06 sec.
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/726670
Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
1 - Survey of English Dialects recording in Portesham, Dorset
2 - Survey of English Dialects recording in Portesham, Dorset
Description
[Side 1] Sid talks about typical wages for mowing by hand in past, explains different approaches to harvesting wheat, barley and oats and describes different types of 'rick' [= stack of corn]. [Side 2] Sid explains how to thatch rick, discusses importance of threshing at right time, recalls once seeing man thresh with 'frail' [= flail] in past, stresses importance of sheep for improving land for corn, lists root crops grown locally and practice of growing 'catch-crops' [= crop grown between two main crops when ground would otherwise lie fallow] such as 'thetch' [= vetch] and 'trifolium' [= type of clover] for pasturing sheep.
Biography or history
Sid b. Portesham, aged 78; local school till aged 13, lived in Portesham except c. 9 years at various times; father b. Portesham; mother b. Littlewindsor; wife b. Portesham.
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78 r.p.m., cellulose nitrate on aluminium
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