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Dialect recording in Heywood, Lancashire

Archive Item: LAVC/SRE/D/2/D114 Contains digital media

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Type of record: Archive

Title: Dialect recording in Heywood, Lancashire

Level: Item

Classmark: LAVC/SRE/D/2/D114

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. 45 sec.; [Side 2] 04 min. 46 sec.

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/726879

Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture

1 - Dialect recording in Heywood, Lancashire

2 - Dialect recording in Heywood, Lancashire

Media credit University of Leeds

Description

[Side 1] Sam and Jack tell series of anecdotes about local characters, recall bets and dares, memories of pranks on bonfire night, cost of alcohol in past. [Side 2] Sam and Jack recall warm ale and food served by public houses on special occasions in past, tell anecdotes about local characters, incl. local amateur poet, memories of 'courting' [= dating].

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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