Dialect recording in Rothbury, Northumberland
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Type of record: Archive
Title: Dialect recording in Rothbury, Northumberland
Classmark: LAVC/SRE/D/1/D46
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] 04 min. 19 sec.; [Side 2] 04 min. 02 sec.
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/726822
Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
1 - Dialect recording in Rothbury, Northumberland
2 - Dialect recording in Rothbury, Northumberland
Description
[Side 1] Billy and John remember white vixen and cubs being presented by Lord Armstrong to Edinburgh Zoo, discuss poaching and trout fishing in River Coquet. [Side 2] Billy and John talk about local industrialist Lord Armstrong (1st Baron Armstrong, 1810-1900), describe his pioneering inventions, incl. installing hydroelectric power at Cragside and producing rifles and shells. John recalls his grandfather refusing to sell house to Armstrong.
Biography or history
Billy & John b. Rothbury.
Access and usage
Reproduction
Access
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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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