Dialect recording in Heywood, Lancashire
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Type of record: Archive
Title: Dialect recording in Heywood, Lancashire
Classmark: LAVC/SRE/D/2/D111
Creator(s): Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)
Site Location(s): Subject - Heywood, Rochdale, Greater Manchester, England, United Kingdom( 53.5924, -2.21941 )
Date(s): 03 Feb 1956
Language: English
Size and medium: [Side 1] 04 min. 18 sec.; [Side 2] 04 min. 39 sec.
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/726876
Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
1 - Dialect recording in Heywood, Lancashire
2 - Dialect recording in Heywood, Lancashire
Description
[Side 1] Sam tells series of anecdotes incl. his efforts to trace descendants of local man sent to Botany Bay, describes trip by locals to Belle Vue (former zoo). [Side 2] Sam tells series of anecdote incl. local woman who only knew husband by nickname, local man who frequently knelt to pray in street, workhouse inmate shifting stones from A to B and back again, local blind pianist, briefly mentions donkey/pony races held locally in past. (NB. Sam frequently uses archaic dialect forms incl. e.g. 'aks' [= ask] and 'hoo' [= she]).
Biography or history
Sam b. Heywood, aged 67.
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Physical and technical conditions
78 r.p.m., cellulose nitrate on aluminium
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