Survey of English Dialects recording in Wark, Northumberland
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Type of record: Archive
Title: Survey of English Dialects recording in Wark, Northumberland
Classmark: LAVC/SRE/D/2/D079
Creator(s): Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)
Site Location(s): Subject - Wark, Northumberland, England, United Kingdom( 55.0862, -2.22267 )
Date(s): 12 Feb 1953
Language: English
Size and medium: [Side 1] 04 min. 36 sec.; [Side 2] 04 min. 49 sec.
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/726844
Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
1 - Survey of English Dialects recording in Wark, Northumberland
2 - Survey of English Dialects recording in Wark, Northumberland
Description
[Side 1] Anty talks about reserves of limestone, ironstone and coal locally despite lack of mining, extolls virtue of fresh lime straight from 'kill' [= kiln] for farming, recalls Consett man praising quality of local ironstone. [Side 2] Anty describes vast seam of coal locally, surprised at lack of interest, criticises National Coal Board, compares cost of transporting coal by road and by rail.
Biography or history
Anty b. Wark, aged 74; local school till aged 12, then farm-worker, collier, sheep-shearer, owns local bus service; family owned local coal mine for generations; former county champion bagpiper.
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Physical and technical conditions
78 r.p.m., cellulose nitrate on aluminium
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