Survey of English Dialects recording in Lowick, Northumberland
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Type of record: Archive
Title: Survey of English Dialects recording in Lowick, Northumberland
Classmark: LAVC/SRE/D/2/D075
Creator(s): Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)
Site Location(s): Subject - Lowick, Northumberland, England, United Kingdom( 55.6353, -1.97804 ); Subject - Ford, Northumberland, England, United Kingdom( 55.6333, -2.08333 )
Date(s): 13 Jan 1952
Language: English
Size and medium: [Side 1] 03 min. 22 sec.; [Side 2] 04 min. 43 sec.
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/726840
Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
Description
[Side 1] Robert talks about keeping pigs, describes killing pig with axe, explains process of 'scadding' [= scalding], hanging and curing meat. [Side 2] Robert recalls schooldays in nearby Duddo, tells anecdote about old groom giving children lifts to school, new groom refused so one day Robert and friends pelted his trap with stones; conversation with unnamed 19 year-old female speaker about work and hopes for marriage to local farm worker, brief discussion with young 'herd' [= shepherd].
Biography or history
Robert b. Ford, aged 70, school in Duddo, then farm worker. unnamed female speaker, aged 19.
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78 r.p.m., cellulose nitrate on aluminium
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