Dialect recording in Rothbury, Northumberland
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Type of record: Archive
Title: Dialect recording in Rothbury, Northumberland
Classmark: LAVC/SRE/D/1/D42
Creator(s): Orton, Harold (1898-1975)
Site Location(s): Subject - Rothbury, Northumberland, England, United Kingdom( 55.3106, -1.90845 )
Date(s): 16 Mar 1939
Language: English
Size and medium: [Side 1] 03 min. 40 sec.; [Side 2] 04 min. 16 sec.
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/726818
Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
1 - Dialect recording in Rothbury, Northumberland
2 - Dialect recording in Rothbury, Northumberland
Description
[Side 1] Jane recites numbers 1 to 20 and multiples of 10 to 100 and supplies pronunciations of list of prompt words. [Side 2] Jane recalls a salmon poaching trip at night, describes annual Thropton versus Rothbury football game, ball thrown in air, goal at Rothbury end was church porch, Thropton won only once in living memory.
Biography or history
Jane b. Rothbury, aged 86.
Access and usage
Reproduction
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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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