Survey of English Dialects recording in Great Strickland, Westmorland
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Type of record: Archive
Title: Survey of English Dialects recording in Great Strickland, Westmorland
Classmark: LAVC/SRE/D/2/D098
Creator(s): Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)
Site Location(s): Subject - Great Strickland, Eden, Cumbria, England, United Kingdom( 54.6, -2.68333 )
Date(s): Jul 1955
Language: English
Size and medium: [Side 1] 05 min. 04 sec.; [Side 2] 04 min. 48 sec.
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/726863
Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
1 - Survey of English Dialects recording in Great Strickland, Westmorland
2 - Survey of English Dialects recording in Great Strickland, Westmorland
Description
[Side 1] Bill describes his 'byre' [= cow-shed] and talks about measures to prevent premature birth of calves, cleaning muck out to 'midden' [= muck heap], recalls introduction of regular testing and inoculation, mentions traditional remedies for preventing 'calf picking' [= premature birth/abortion in cows], incl. 'hinging' [= hanging] 'lile' [= little] locally quarried stone up in byre till string broke or hinging lile 'clout bag' [= cloth bag] of salt from beam or joist, mentions common superstition of nailing 'hoss-shoe' [= horse-shoe] above door. [Side 2] Bill describes general layout of farm buildings and design of 'to-fall byre' [= lean-to cow-shed] with loft 'aboon' [= above] stable end for hen-house and pigeon loft, recalls barn burning down in 1934, discusses ploughing set number of 'rigs' [= ridges] per day, sowing, mowing, stacking and 'thacking' [= thatching], storing corn in 'mowstead' [= bay in barn], threshing by hand, transporting loose straw in 'creel' [= large wicker
basket] or 'wap' [= bundle of straw].
Biography or history
Bill, aged 58.
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78 r.p.m., cellulose nitrate on aluminium
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