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Dialect recording in Newbiggin-by-the-Sea, Northumberland

Archive Item: LAVC/SRE/D/2/D086 Contains digital media

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Type of record: Archive

Title: Dialect recording in Newbiggin-by-the-Sea, Northumberland

Level: Item

Classmark: LAVC/SRE/D/2/D086

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

Site Location(s): Subject - Newbiggin-by-the-sea, Northumberland, England, United Kingdom( 55.1853, -1.51469 )

Date(s): 17 Sep 1952

Language: English

Size and medium: [Side 1] 04 min. 56 sec.; [Side 2] 05 min. 39 sec.

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/726851

Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture

1 - Dialect recording in Newbiggin-by-the-Sea, Northumberland

2 - Dialect recording in Newbiggin-by-the-Sea, Northumberland

Description

[Side 1] Conversation about 'mushel' [= mussel] fishing, discussion of preparations for following morning, comments about poor quality of mushels recently, nothing but 'clarts' [= mud]. [Side 2] Explanation of navigation in dark by compass, discussion of stormy weather that morning, good catch but lucky to get home, lifeboat struggled to launch.

Biography or history

Eleanor b. Newbiggin-by-the-Sea, aged 39; Hunter's wife. Hunter b. Newbiggin-by-the-Sea, aged 40; Eleanor's husband. Rose b. Newbiggin-by-the-Sea, aged 42; Eleanor's sister. Jack b. Newbiggin-by-the-Sea, aged 48.

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Physical and technical conditions

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

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