Survey of English Dialects recording in Dolphinholme, Lancashire
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Type of record: Archive
Title: Survey of English Dialects recording in Dolphinholme, Lancashire
Classmark: LAVC/SRE/D/2/D103
Creator(s): Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)
Site Location(s): Subject - Dolphinholme, Lancaster, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom( 53.9756, -2.73734 )
Date(s): 24 May 1954
Language: English
Size and medium: [Side 1] 04 min. 39 sec.; [Side 2] 04 min. 28 sec.
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/726868
Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
1 - Survey of English Dialects recording in Dolphinholme, Lancashire
2 - Survey of English Dialects recording in Dolphinholme, Lancashire
Description
[Side 1] Bill describes baking oatcakes over open fire with 'spittle' [= wooden baking shovel] and 'cratch' [= drying rack], talks about owners of Wyreside Hall and working with horses, recalls runaway horse bolting and dying. [Side 2] Bill recalls Jack Smith local horse-driver and last 'town's prentice' [= hired labourer], describes home and school life, brought up by grandparents, left school aged twelve to work in shop then with horses, recalls winning prizes and seeing Buffalo Bill at Kendall Show.
Biography or history
Bill b. Dolphinholme, aged 74, whole life in district; father b. Dolphinholme; mother b. Pilling. Wife b. Pilling.
Tom was not an informant asssociated with the Survey of English Dialects fieldwork in 1953.
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78 r.p.m., cellulose nitrate on aluminium
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