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Survey of English Dialects recording in Lowick, Northumberland

Archive Item: LAVC/SRE/D/2/D076 Contains digital media

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Type of record: Archive

Title: Survey of English Dialects recording in Lowick, Northumberland

Level: Item

Classmark: LAVC/SRE/D/2/D076

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): 14 Feb 1953

Language: English

Size and medium: [Side 1] 03 min. 58 sec.; [Side 2] 05 min. 10 sec.

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/726841

Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture

Description

[Side 1] Robert recalls schooldays in nearby Duddo, tells anecdote about old groom giving children lift to school, new groom refused so one day Robert and friends pelted his trap with stones, brief description of father's work as 'byreman' [= cowman] and pigman. [Side 2] Detailed description of slaughtering pig, feeding pig up, herd fixing day for slaughter, sticking pig with 'gully' [= knife], scalding, skinning, scraping, removing insides, preparing 'flake' [= flitch], women making potted meat.

Biography or history

Robert b. Ford, aged 70, school in Duddo, then farm worker.



Robert was not an informant asssociated with the Survey of English Dialects fieldwork in 1953.

Provenance

Recording date 1953-02-14 noted by ear, 1953-03-21 written on lacquer disc label.

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78 r.p.m., cellulose nitrate on aluminium

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