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Survey of English Dialects recording in Old Bolingbroke, Lincolnshire

Archive Item: LAVC/SRE/D/2/D336 Contains digital media

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Type of record: Archive

Title: Survey of English Dialects recording in Old Bolingbroke, Lincolnshire

Level: Item

Classmark: LAVC/SRE/D/2/D336

Site Location(s): Place name - Old Bolingbroke, East Lindsey, Lincolnshire, England, United Kingdom( 53.1665, 0.01725 )

Date(s): 09 Jan 1952

Language: English

Size and medium: [Side 1] 03 min. 23 sec.; [Side 2] 02 min. 05 sec.

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/726708

Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture

1 - Survey of English Dialects recording in Old Bolingbroke, Lincolnshire

2 - Survey of English Dialects recording in Old Bolingbroke, Lincolnshire

Description

[Side 1] Arthur talks about apprenticeship as blacksmith, describes wages and working conditions, compares trades in village now and in past, comments mechanisation has driven employment to foundries in big towns, recalls craftsmanship of making farm machinery in past, reflects on discipline and relationships at work in past. [Side 2] Arthur recalls starting first job after apprenticeship in Horncastle, compares cost of living now and in past, reflects on mechanisation of farm labour, incl. mowing and binding corn. Note: Recording date 1952-01-09 noted by ear, 1952-01-16 written on lacquer disc label.

Biography or history

Arthur b. Old Bolingbroke, aged 76, local school, whole life in Old Bolingbroke.

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

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