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Dialect recording in Acomb, Northumberland

Archive Item: LAVC/SRE/D/1/D24 Contains digital media

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Type of record: Archive

Title: Dialect recording in Acomb, Northumberland

Level: Item

Classmark: LAVC/SRE/D/1/D24

Creator(s): Orton, Harold (1898-1975); Lenihan, J M A

Site Location(s): Subject - Acomb, Northumberland, England, United Kingdom( 54.9923, -2.11229 )

Date(s): 27 Jun 1939

Language: English

Size and medium: [Side 1] 03 min. 20 sec.; [Side 2] 03 min. 21 sec.

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/726800

Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture

1 - Dialect recording in Acomb, Northumberland

2 - Dialect recording in Acomb, Northumberland

Description

[Side 1] Conversation between Joseph, Henry and Jack (mainly inaudible). [Side 2] Edward and John describe working conditions at Acomb Colliery, discuss coal face, fore-shift and back-shift, water in shaft, removal of pillars, longwall system; provide examples of local pronunciations: 'walk', 'know', 'Acomb', 'call'.

Biography or history

Henry b. Acomb, aged 75-80, Joseph's uncle. Joseph b. Acomb, Henry's nephew. Jack, Teddy & John b. Acomb.

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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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