Survey of English Dialects recording in Coniston, Lancashire
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Type of record: Archive
Title: Survey of English Dialects recording in Coniston, Lancashire
Classmark: LAVC/SRE/D/2/D101
Creator(s): Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)
Site Location(s): Subject - Coniston, South Lakeland, Cumbria, England, United Kingdom( 54.3688, -3.07505 )
Date(s): Jun 1954
Language: English
Size and medium: [Side 1] 03 min. 35 sec.; [Side 2] 04 min. 40 sec.
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/726866
Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
1 - Survey of English Dialects recording in Coniston, Lancashire
2 - Survey of English Dialects recording in Coniston, Lancashire
Description
[Side 1] Boss and Tom talk about being recorded for the Survey, discuss previous night's visit by fieldworker. [Side 2] Boss and Tom share memories of quarrying and work in copper mine, anecdotes about local charcater (Ely), Boss recalls occasion when he thought he might lose job after missing work to watch local hunt, Tom cites local phrase predicting wet weather: 'when thou sees it goes up in sops [= cloud of mist] it comes down in drops', brief conversation about Donald Campbell's second attempt at breaking speed record on Ullswater, recall boat breaking in two.
Biography or history
Boss b. Coniston, aged 74; local school till aged 12; mother b. Coniston; father b. South, railwayman; wife b. Langdale. Tom b. Coniston, aged 69.
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Physical and technical conditions
78 r.p.m., cellulose nitrate on aluminium
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