Survey of English Dialects recording in Easingwold, Yorkshire
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Type of record: Archive
Title: Survey of English Dialects recording in Easingwold, Yorkshire
Classmark: LAVC/SRE/D/2/D125
Creator(s): Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)
Site Location(s): Subject - Easingwold, Hambleton, North Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom( 54.1201, -1.1939 ); Subject - Crayke, Hambleton, North Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom( 54.1275, -1.14213 )
Date(s): 15 Apr 1955
Language: English
Size and medium: [Side 1] 04 min. 45 sec.; [Side 2] 05 min. 12 sec.
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/726890
Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
1 - Survey of English Dialects recording in Easingwold, Yorkshire
2 - Survey of English Dialects recording in Easingwold, Yorkshire
Description
[Side 1] John tells anecdote about two brothers working on buildings at Ampleforth College who found buried 'pankin' [= earthenware pot] of spade-guineas, shared plunder and lived off 'brass' for years. [Side 2] (continued from side 1) John recalls sister living off money till she died, recalls local working-class women 'gleaning' [= gathering leftover corn], describes working conditions in domestic service in past, comments upper classes no longer able to maintain household 'kelter' [rubbish/nonsense, i.e. superfluous ornaments, china, silverware etc.].
Biography or history
John b. Ampleforth, aged 67, local school till aged 14, lived in Craye since aged 16; father b. Coxwold; mother b. Coxwold; grandfather b. Coxwold; grandmother b. Coxwold.
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78 r.p.m., cellulose nitrate on aluminium
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