Dialect recording in Rothbury, Northumberland
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Type of record: Archive
Title: Dialect recording in Rothbury, Northumberland
Classmark: LAVC/SRE/D/1/D43
Creator(s): Orton, Harold (1898-1975)
Site Location(s): Subject - Rothbury, Northumberland, England, United Kingdom( 55.3106, -1.90845 )
Date(s): Mar 1939
Language: English
Size and medium: [Side 1] 04 min. 05 sec.; [Side 2] 04 min. 32 sec.
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/726819
Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
1 - Dialect recording in Rothbury, Northumberland
2 - Dialect recording in Rothbury, Northumberland
Description
[Side 1] Jane and George talk about Rothbury Races, recall year bridge collapsed and horse called Sultan breaking its neck, discuss forthcoming races and hope for decent weather, describe watching races in snowstorms, reminisce about making own entertainment in past. [Side 2] George remembers buying fishing tackle from Jane's shop to go trout fishing; Jane reads from letter describing Rothbury Tansy [= Shrovetide Feast] in past.
Biography or history
Jane b. Rothbury, aged 86. George b. Rothbury.
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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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