Dialect recording in Whalton, Northumberland
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Type of record: Archive
Title: Dialect recording in Whalton, Northumberland
Classmark: LAVC/SRE/D/1/D68
Creator(s): Orton, Harold (1898-1975)
Site Location(s): Subject - Whalton, Northumberland, England, United Kingdom( 55.127, -1.79752 )
Date(s): 25 Aug 1939
Language: English
Size and medium: [Side 1] 04 min. 31 sec.; [Side 2] 04 min. 21 sec.
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/726838
Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
1 - Dialect recording in Whalton, Northumberland
2 - Dialect recording in Whalton, Northumberland
Description
[Side 1] Joe and Billy talk briefly about cars; Joe outlines recent local cricket matches and personal contributions, compares cricket with football, mentions Billy's weekly trips to watch Newcastle United and past football prowess; brief discussion of angling and description of recent quoits competition. [Side 2] Billy recites numbers 1 to 20 and multiples of 10 to 100 and supplies pronunciations of list of prompt words.
Biography or history
Joe b. Belsay. Billy b. Whalton.
Provenance
Recording location noted by ear.
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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