Survey of English Dialects recording in Allendale, Northumberland
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Type of record: Archive
Title: Survey of English Dialects recording in Allendale, Northumberland
Classmark: LAVC/SRE/D/2/D083
Creator(s): Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)
Site Location(s): Subject - Allendale, Northumberland, England, United Kingdom( 54.8608, -2.25108 )
Date(s): Sep-1955
Language: English
Size and medium: [Side 1] 04 min. 41 sec.; [Side 2] 04 min. 09 sec.
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/726848
Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
1 - Survey of English Dialects recording in Allendale, Northumberland
2 - Survey of English Dialects recording in Allendale, Northumberland
Description
[Side 1] George describes his first experiences as lead miner, compares lack of interest among young miners now and in past, expresses concern at lack of awareness of lead mining terminology, incl. distinction between vein lead and flat lead, describes typical daily routine and workload. [Side 2] George discusses changes in nature of farming locally, explains how individual smallholdings have merged into single farms, laments loss of traditional practices, incl. use of moss in 'midden' [= muck heap] and regular removal and re-use of 'yeddle' [= cow's urine collected in 'yeddle-hole' in cow-shed and added to manure]; brief description of death of colleague in mine incident in 1916.
Biography or history
George b. Allendale, aged 57.
Thomas was not an informant asssociated with the Survey of English Dialects fieldwork in 1953.
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Physical and technical conditions
78 r.p.m., cellulose nitrate on aluminium
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