Dialect recording in Holmbridge, Yorkshire
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Type of record: Archive
Title: Dialect recording in Holmbridge, Yorkshire
Classmark: LAVC/SRE/D/2/D314
Creator(s): Dyson, B Ronald
Site Location(s): Place name - Holmbridge, Kirklees, West Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom( 53.5592, -1.81721 )
Date(s): Sep 1951
Language: English
Size and medium: [Side 1] 03 min. 59 sec.; [Side 2] 04 min. 53 sec.
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/726692
Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
1 - Dialect recording in Holmbridge, Yorkshire
2 - Dialect recording in Holmbridge, Yorkshire
Description
[Side 1] Speaker explains he was one of eight children, tells anecdote about occasion he was left smallest bowl of porridge after collecting sticks and coal for fire, describes how he had earlier seen mouse in meal tub so he put mouse in porridge and made rest of family 'gip' [= to retch prior to vomiting] and leave table so he made himself fresh bowl of porridge. [Side 2] Speaker talks about farmer from Selby courting local woman, tells anecdote about same farmer's disapproval of speaker's use of stick to control difficult bull, recalls farmer trying to show him how to control bull and being chased across field in 'Sunday clothes' [= best clothes], provides local terms for parts of cowhouse incl. 'heck' [= hay-rack], 'boost' [= stall] and 'piggin' [= milk-pail]. Note: Recording date 1951-09 noted by ear, 1951-11-06 written on lacquer disc label.
Biography or history
Speaker (identified as grandfather of Mrs. Jack Barber) b. Holmfirth, aged 87, whole life in Holmfirth.
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78 r.p.m., cellulose nitrate on aluminium
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