Survey of English Dialects recording in Holmbridge, Yorkshire
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Type of record: Archive
Title: Survey of English Dialects recording in Holmbridge, Yorkshire
Classmark: LAVC/SRE/D/2/D308
Creator(s): Dyson, B Ronald
Site Location(s): Place name - Holmbridge, Kirklees, West Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom( 53.5592, -1.81721 )
Date(s): Sep 1952
Language: English
Size and medium: [Side 1] 04 min. 06 sec.; [Side 2] 04 min. 07 sec.
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/726687
Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
1 - Survey of English Dialects recording in Holmbridge, Yorkshire
2 - Survey of English Dialects recording in Holmbridge, Yorkshire
Description
[Side 1] Mrs. Earnshaw talks about local ironworks, recalls lighting fire in past with flint and baking bread in front of fire, remembers eating 'tea-cake' [= bread roll] with brother when working at mill. [Side 2] Mrs. Earnshaw describes home made tea-cakes, recalls going to magic lantern shows on Saturday afternoons, discusses benefits of clogs over modern boots, lists ingredients for mother's 'parkin' [= type of gingerbread cake] 'currant pasty' and 'jam pasty' [= currant/jam pastry], demonstrates mother's pronunciation of 'sugar'.
Biography or history
Mrs. Earnshaw b. Holmfirth, aged 87, whole life in Holmfirth; father b. Holmfirth; mother b. Holmfirth; husband b. Holmfirth.
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Physical and technical conditions
78 r.p.m., cellulose nitrate on aluminium
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