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Survey of English Dialects recording in Muker, Yorkshire

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Type of record: Archive

Title: Survey of English Dialects recording in Muker, Yorkshire

Level: Item

Classmark: LAVC/SRE/D/2/D120

Site Location(s): Subject - Muker, North Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom( 54.3765, -2.14354 )

Date(s): 15 Apr 1955

Language: English

Size and medium: [Side 1] 05 min. 03 sec.; [Side 2] 05 min. 24 sec.

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/726885

Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture

1 - Survey of English Dialects recording in Muker, Yorkshire

2 - Survey of English Dialects recording in Muker, Yorkshire

Description

[Side 1] Cooper talks about mowing by hand, explains grass would 'lig' [=] for day before being turned and put into 'lile cock/foot cock' [= small pile of hay], 'lap cock' [= medium-sized pile of hay] or 'jockey cock' [= large pile of hay], comments process now much quicker, mentions demise of 'lea' [= scythe] and reduction in itinerant Irish labourers since mechanisation, talks briefly about changes in dairy farming. [Side 2] Cooper talks about recent rise in pig farming locally, describes traditional method of 'sticking' [= killing] pig, incl. use of 'greasing stool' [= bench for slaughtering and dressing pig], converted to humane killing c.1935/6, discusses meat and by-products incl. 'crappings' [= scraps left after rendering pig fat], 'collop' [= cut of meat for frying], 'blether' [= bladder] and 'saim' [= pig fat/lard].

Biography or history

Cooper b. Muker, aged 68, school at Keld till aged 11, whole life in Muker; father b. Muker; mother b. Muker; mife b. Gunnerside.

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

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