Survey of English Dialects recording in Longtown, Cumberland
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Type of record: Archive
Title: Survey of English Dialects recording in Longtown, Cumberland
Classmark: LAVC/SRE/D/2/D088
Creator(s): Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)
Site Location(s): Subject - Longtown, Carlisle, Cumbria, England, United Kingdom( 55.0093, -2.96722 )
Date(s): 11 Sep 1955
Language: English
Size and medium: [Side 1] 04 min. 41 sec.; [Side 2] 04 min. 23 sec.
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/726853
Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
1 - Survey of English Dialects recording in Longtown, Cumberland
2 - Survey of English Dialects recording in Longtown, Cumberland
Description
[Side 1] Rebecca recounts several experiences as midwife, recalls time when young mother and baby died in childbirth before she could assist, describes how woman had had premonition several days earlier. [Side 2] Rebecca describes farm work, recalls milking 'kye' [= cows] in 'byre' [=cowshed] at Crofthead and Netherby, delivering milk by donkey, making 'churn-milk' [= buttermilk], taking eggs and poultry to Netherby, memories of Netherby Hall in past.
Biography or history
Rebecca b. Longtown, aged 76; husband b. Penrith, farm worker.
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Physical and technical conditions
78 r.p.m., cellulose nitrate on aluminium
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