Dialect recording in Wark, Northumberland
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Type of record: Archive
Title: Dialect recording in Wark, Northumberland
Classmark: LAVC/SRE/D/1/D08
Site Location(s): Subject - Wark, Northumberland, England, United Kingdom( 55.0862, -2.22267 )
Date(s): 30 May 1939
Language: English
Size and medium: [Side 1] 04 min. 12 sec.; [Side 2] 03 min. 33 sec.
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/726781
Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
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Description
[Side 1] Conversation between Ned and George about keeping bees, George comments 'a swarm in May's worth a load of hay', Ned talks about forking hay by hand, recalls prank of putting duck down chimney. [0:02:17] nED discusses working as gravedigger since 1904, recalls catching stoat, brief discussion about adders. [Side 2] Conversation between Douglas, Tommy, Willie and George about local football team, reflect on succesful previous season, brief discussion of gardening incl. recent fine weather and apple blossom, comment just sown teddies [= 'potatoes'].
Biography or history
George, Tommy, Douglas, Willie & Mrs. Civl b. Wark.
Access and usage
Reproduction
Access
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Downloadable text transcriptions (where available) are reproduced with permission from Juhani Klemola and Mark Jones. ©All Rights Reserved.
Physical and technical conditions
78 r.p.m., cellulose nitrate on aluminium
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