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Dialect recording in Belford, Northumberland

Archive Item: LAVC/SRE/D/2/D084 Contains digital media

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Type of record: Archive

Title: Dialect recording in Belford, Northumberland

Level: Item

Classmark: LAVC/SRE/D/2/D084

Creator(s): Orton, Harold (1898-1975); Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)

Site Location(s): Subject - Belford, Northumberland, England, United Kingdom( 55.5813, -1.83744 )

Date(s): 18 Sep 1952

Language: English

Size and medium: [Side 1] 04 min. 43 sec.; [Side 2] 04 min. 47 sec.

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/726849

Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture

1 - Dialect recording in Belford, Northumberland

2 - Dialect recording in Belford, Northumberland

Description

[Side 1] Fred tells series of anecdotes about local characters, Cissie and Fred discuss differences between dialects locally, Fred briefly mentions disputes between rival supporters from Holy Island of Newcastle United and Sunderland at previous night's football match. [Side 2] Cissie and Fred give examples of Holy Island dialect, brief discussion of previous night's football match; Fred tells anecdote of woman who held up postilion in local pub, stole her father's death warrant and went to Edinburgh to seek his pardon.

Biography or history

Fred b. Belford, aged 38; Cissie's brother. Cissie b. Belford, aged 42; Fred's brother.

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Physical and technical conditions

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

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