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Dialect recording in Heywood, Lancashire

Archive Item: LAVC/SRE/D/2/D113 Contains digital media

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Type of record: Archive

Title: Dialect recording in Heywood, Lancashire

Level: Item

Classmark: LAVC/SRE/D/2/D113

Creator(s): Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)

Site Location(s): Subject - Heywood, Rochdale, Greater Manchester, England, United Kingdom( 53.5924, -2.21941 )

Date(s): 24 Sep 1956

Language: English

Size and medium: [Side 1] 04 min. 41 sec.; [Side 2] 04 min. 43 sec.

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/726878

Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture

1 - Dialect recording in Heywood, Lancashire

2 - Dialect recording in Heywood, Lancashire

Description

[Side 1] Sam and Jack talk about daily life in past, incl. pawn shops, street vendors, fire at Hooley Bridge, opening of working men's club, wages and hours in mill, 1893 union strike. [Side 2] Sam and Jack talk about 1893 union strike, reflect on changes in Heywood, describe celebrations for South Africa War victories, recall crowds at Bury Football Club, compare life now and in past, discuss attitudes to authority in past.

Biography or history

Sam b. Heywood, aged 67. Jack aged 74.

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Physical and technical conditions

78 r.p.m., cellulose nitrate on aluminium

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