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/D320
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. 56 sec.; [Side 2] 04 min. 31 sec.
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/726697
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] Conversation between Haigh, his daughter and Herbert about Christmas, description of traditional welcome given to outsiders, discussion of recipe for 'parkin' [= type of gingerbread cake] and ingredients incl. 'flod' [= mixture of oatmeal and treacle], brief reference to 'moggin' [= parkin made with yeast]. [Side 2] Haigh, his daughter and Herbert continue discussion of parkin, talk about Haigh's father having to 'piecen' [= rejoin broken threads in spinning mill] from age of six and eating porridge made from meal, water and treacle. Note: Recording date 1951-09 noted by ear, 1951-11-06 written on lacquer disc label.
Biography or history
Haigh b. Holme, aged 83, local school till aged 13, whole life in Holme; father b. Holme; mother b. Holme. unnamed female speaker, aged 60; father b. Holme, shepherd, gamekeeper & smallholder. Herbert, b. Holmfirth, aged 60.
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78 r.p.m., cellulose nitrate on aluminium
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