Survey of English Dialects recording in Ribchester, Lancashire
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Type of record: Archive
Title: Survey of English Dialects recording in Ribchester, Lancashire
Classmark: LAVC/SRE/D/2/D104
Creator(s): Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)
Site Location(s): Subject - Ribchester, Ribble Valley, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom( 53.8136, -2.53244 )
Date(s): Mar 1954
Language: English
Size and medium: [Side 1] 05 min. 21 sec.; [Side 2] 04 min. 23 sec.
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/726869
Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
1 - Survey of English Dialects recording in Ribchester, Lancashire
2 - Survey of English Dialects recording in Ribchester, Lancashire
Description
[Side 1] Bill recalls generosity and popularity of local character and ex-skipper Harry Gavin, tells anecdote about misunderstanding instructions to heave 'ho' or 'how', Bill talks about keeping and slaughtering pigs, incl. use of 'whittle' [= butcher's knife], recalls pig 'skriking' [= screeching], describes how they used to 'hing' [= hang] pigs up, salt and 'scalden' [= scald] them to make bacon. [Side 2] Bill and Bob compare living conditions now and in past, Bill comments food plentiful but wages low, describes typical weekly diet of potatoes, onions, bacon, 'poddish' [= porridge], 'blue milk' [= skimmed milk] and 'treacle-cake' [= bread and treacle], recalls wearing clogs on Sunday and buying velvet jacket.
Biography or history
Bill b. Ribchester, aged 93, whole life in Ribchester except 15 months in Harwood; 1st & 2nd wife b. Ribchester. Bob b. Ribchester, aged 73, local school till aged 10, subsequently attended night school, deaf from 1918-1952, then hearing aid; wife b. Ribchester.
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78 r.p.m., cellulose nitrate on aluminium
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