Survey of English Dialects recording in Elsdon, Northumberland. Survey of English Dialects recording in Wark, Northumberland
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Type of record: Archive
Title: Survey of English Dialects recording in Elsdon, Northumberland. Survey of English Dialects recording in Wark, Northumberland
Classmark: LAVC/SRE/D/2/D080
Creator(s): Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)
Site Location(s): Subject - Elsdon, Northumberland, England, United Kingdom( 55.2329, -2.10249 ); Subject - Wark, Northumberland, England, United Kingdom( 55.0862, -2.22267 )
Date(s): 12 Feb 1953-21 Mar 1953
Language: English
Size and medium: [Side 1] 04 min. 10 sec.; [Side 2] 04 min. 56 sec.
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/726845
Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
1 - Survey of English Dialects recording in Elsdon, Northumberland. Survey of English Dialects recording in Wark, Northumberland
2 - Survey of English Dialects recording in Elsdon, Northumberland. Survey of English Dialects recording in Wark, Northumberland
Description
[Side 1] Simey recounts story of murder in 1791 of Elsdon shopkeeper, Margaret Crozier, and of subsequent pursuit and eventual hanging of culprit, William Winter: man, two women and 'cuddy' [= donkey] spotted by 'herd' [= shepherd] while eating on local hillside, gang then robbed and attacked shopkeeper on 'The Raa' [= The Row] returning later to kill her, herd reported sighting and gang were pursued, man finally arrested in Throckley, tried and hanged at Newcastle, body taken and hung from 'gibbet' [= gallows] on hilltop overlooking The Raa; Winters Gibbet, now with wooden head, still stands on same spot. [Side 2] Anty tells series of anecdotes about local characters.
Biography or history
Simey Telfer b. Elsdon, aged 64. 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.
Provenance
Side 2 catalogued separately as LAVC/SRE/D/2/80a
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Physical and technical conditions
78 r.p.m., cellulose nitrate on aluminium
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