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Dialect recording in Rothbury, Northumberland

Archive Item: LAVC/SRE/D/1/D42 Contains digital media

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Type of record: Archive

Title: Dialect recording in Rothbury, Northumberland

Level: Item

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.

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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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