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Dialect recording in Cullercoats, Northumberland

Archive Item: LAVC/SRE/D/1/D01 Contains digital media

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Type of record: Archive

Title: Dialect recording in Cullercoats, Northumberland

Level: Item

Classmark: LAVC/SRE/D/1/D01

Creator(s): Hornsby, G

Site Location(s): Subject - Cullercoats, North Tyneside, Tyne and Wear, England, United Kingdom( 55.0316, -1.43098 )

Date(s): 11 Nov 1938

Language: English

Size and medium: [Side 1] 03 min. 40 sec.; [Side 2] 03 min. 23 sec.

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/726774

Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture

1 - Dialect recording in Cullercoats, Northumberland

2 - Dialect recording in Cullercoats, Northumberland

Description

[Side 1] Mrs. Henry recites passage, 'Cullercoats and the work of the fisher folks', describes week-long mussel-fishing trips and work of fisher wives: baiting lines (140 hooks per line), waiting with 'creels' [= wicker basket] for catch to arrive, selling 'mushels' [= mussels] by the stone at Newcastle Quays, comments fleet of 30 now reduced by half. [Side 2] Mrs. Henry recites the story of the little mouse and the old tom cat in Cullercoats dialect (x2).

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Downloadable text transcriptions (where available) are reproduced with permission from Juhani Klemola and Mark Jones. ©All Rights Reserved.

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

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