Survey of English Dialects recording in Nafferton, Yorkshire
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Type of record: Archive
Title: Survey of English Dialects recording in Nafferton, Yorkshire
Classmark: LAVC/SRE/D/2/D127
Creator(s): Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)
Site Location(s): Subject - Nafferton, East Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom( 54.0212, -0.41262 ); Subject - North Frodingham, East Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom( 53.9626, -0.32354 )
Date(s): 14 Apr 1955
Language: English
Size and medium: [Side 1] 04 min. 29 sec.; [Side 2] 04 min. 55 sec.
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/726892
Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
Description
[Side 1] Cyril talks about local choir, recalls ploughing and showing horses all round country, explains traditional ploughing technique and terms incl. 'headland' [= strip of unploughed land at end of field ploughed at right angles last], 'rig' [= raised strip of land between each pair of furrows in ploughed field], 'gain' [= strip of land in non-symmetrical field ploughed separately], 'gee round' [= instruction to horse to turn left] and 'hauve round' [= instruction to horse to turn right]. [Side 2] Cyril compares ploughing now with tractor and ploughing with horses in past, describes how to 'lig down' [= intertwine branches of brushwood to form/repair hedge] hedge, stresses importance of tools, recalls pride at doing good job hedging or 'theaking' [= covering stack with straw].
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Biography or history
Cyril b. Frodingham, aged 60, local school till aged 13, whole life in Frodingham expect 4 years during WW1.
Provenance
Cyril's age of 60 noted by ear, 59 written on lacquer disc label.
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Physical and technical conditions
78 r.p.m., cellulose nitrate on aluminium
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