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Dialect recording in Belford, Northumberland

Archive Item: LAVC/SRE/D/1/D31 Contains digital media

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Type of record: Archive

Title: Dialect recording in Belford, Northumberland

Level: Item

Classmark: LAVC/SRE/D/1/D31

Creator(s): Orton, Harold (1898-1975)

Site Location(s): Subject - Belford, Northumberland, England, United Kingdom( 55.5813, -1.83744 )

Date(s): Jul 1939

Language: English

Size and medium: [Side 1] 03 min. 57 sec.; [Side 2] 03 min. 32 sec.

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/726807

Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture

1 - Dialect recording in Belford, Northumberland

2 - Dialect recording in Belford, Northumberland

Description

[Side 1] Willie, Fred and Cliff recall sleeping above shed in Chillingham, hearing 'howlet' [= owl] in night, sleeping on straw mattresses, living off bread, cheese and tinned food, falling when building hayshed, memories of Chillingham sports. [Side 2] Mr and Mrs. Johnson and their son Fred compare wages now and in past, discuss saving up for married life, exchange opinions about ideal wife, refer to local custom of 'jumping over the petting stone'.

Biography or history

Mr Johnson b. Belford; Fred, Willie and Cliff's father. Mrs. Johnson b. Fenwick; Fred, Willie and Cliff's mother. Fred, Willie & Cliff b. Belford; brothers.

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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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