Survey of English Dialects recording in Stokesley, Yorkshire
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Type of record: Archive
Title: Survey of English Dialects recording in Stokesley, Yorkshire
Classmark: LAVC/SRE/D/2/D116
Creator(s): Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)
Site Location(s): Subject - Stokesley, Hambleton, North Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom( 54.47, -1.19331 )
Date(s): 16 Apr 1955
Language: English
Size and medium: [Side 1] 05 min. 11 sec.; [Side 2] 04 min. 17 sec.
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/726881
Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
1 - Survey of English Dialects recording in Stokesley, Yorkshire
2 - Survey of English Dialects recording in Stokesley, Yorkshire
Description
[Side 1] Charles talks about traditional farm practice, briefly mentions ploughing, threshing and describes stacking techniques, compares methods now and in past, recalls long hours with horses before advent of tractor, describes daily routine when first started farming from milking by hand to milk round, reflects on challenges of buying and selling sheep and 'beast' [= cattle]. [Side 2] Charles relates several difficult experiences with calving, recalls incident when veterinary attended cow with twins, one calf still-born and 'cleansing' [= afterbirth] rancid, describes how he suffered more frequently with 'pick' [= aborted calf] after visit from trader 'hawking' [= selling] preventive cure, explains how he suspects he infected herd intentionally, describes last incidence of 'pick' when cow lost 'calf-bed' [= womb] making policeman who came to help 'boke' [= to retch/vomit].
Biography or history
Charles b. Stokesley, aged 61, local school till aged 14, whole life in Stokesley except 3 years during WW1; wife b. Ingleby Greenhow.
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Physical and technical conditions
78 r.p.m., cellulose nitrate on aluminium
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