Dialect recording in Wall, Northumberland
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Type of record: Archive
Title: Dialect recording in Wall, Northumberland
Classmark: LAVC/SRE/D/1/D20
Creator(s): Lenihan, J M A
Site Location(s): Subject - Wall, Northumberland, England, United Kingdom( 55.0264, -2.07698 )
Date(s): Jun 1939
Language: English
Size and medium: [Side 1] 04 min. 23 sec.; [Side 2] 04 min. 01 sec.
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/726796
Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
1 - Dialect recording in Wall, Northumberland
2 - Dialect recording in Wall, Northumberland
Description
[Side 1] Memories of various pranks incl. putting hen down neighbour's chimney and friends taking blame, remember Margaret Henderson selling tobacco for halfpenny, anecdote about Ned Telfer persuading farmer's wife to give him her home-baked 'girdle cakes' [= griddle cakes] by pretending to beat pig for eating his 'bait' [=packed lunch], anecdote about lodger persuading landlady to increase bait rations. [Side 2] Ridley tells series of anecdotes about World War 1 incl. wearing boots out retreating and stealing pair from German soldiers behind enemy lines, slipping over repeatedly while retreating.
Biography or history
Ned b. Wall.
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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