Dialect recording in Wall, Northumberland
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Type of record: Archive
Title: Dialect recording in Wall, Northumberland
Classmark: LAVC/SRE/D/1/D22
Site Location(s): Subject - Wall, Northumberland, England, United Kingdom( 55.0264, -2.07698 )
Date(s): 13 Jun 1939
Language: English
Size and medium: [Side 1] 03 min. 37 sec.; [Side 2] 03 min. 50 sec.
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/726798
Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
1 - Dialect recording in Wall, Northumberland
2 - Dialect recording in Wall, Northumberland
Description
[Side 1] Conversation between Mr Maugham and Ned about breeding sheep dogs, dairy farming and local character who was horse dealer. [Side 2] Conversation between Matthew and William about milling corn, recall how miller in past used to take 'gowpenful' [= handful] of flour in lieu of wages, discussion of weights and measures in past, anecdote about confusion between 'poke' [= sack] and 'sack'.
Biography or history
Mr Maugham b. Allendale, moved to Acomb aged 13. Ned b. Wall. Matthew b. Slaley, farmer at Belsay. William b. Holystone, farmer at Make Me Rich.
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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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