Survey of English Dialects recording in Skelmanthorpe, Yorkshire
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Type of record: Archive
Title: Survey of English Dialects recording in Skelmanthorpe, Yorkshire
Classmark: LAVC/SRE/D/2/D131
Creator(s): Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)
Site Location(s): Subject - Skelmanthorpe, Kirklees, West Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom( 53.5906, -1.65173 )
Date(s): 25 Oct 1952
Language: English
Size and medium: [Side 1] 04 min. 50 sec.; [Side 2] 04 min. 17 sec.
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/726896
Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
1 - Survey of English Dialects recording in Skelmanthorpe, Yorkshire
2 - Survey of English Dialects recording in Skelmanthorpe, Yorkshire
Description
[Side 1] Wilsey tells anecdote about seeing apparition that turned out to be woman in nightdress looking for lost cat, recalls working in coal mine from age of twelve, describes long hours, harsh working conditions and meagre wages. [Side 2] Wilsey describes local coal seam and explains different methods of coal extraction, recalls having to 'lig' [= lie] down to dig coal for 'hurrier' [= coal carriers] to take away, describes digging out 'bearing' [= waste material] and transferring to 'gobbing' [= excavated space filled with waste material] and riddling coal into car for removal to surface, discusses changes to mining since mechanisation, briefly talks about decline of handlooms in village after increase in US tariff, comments village nearly 'clammed' [= starved] to death, reflects on shift in balance of industry between textiles and collieries.
Biography or history
Wilsey b. Skelmanthorpe, aged 76, local school till aged 10, whole life in Skelmanthorpe; father b. Skelmanthorpe, handloom weaver & smallholder; mother b. Skelmanthorpe.
Provenance
Wilsey's age of 76 noted by ear and written on lacquer disc label, 75 written in Survey of English Dialects Basic Material, Volume 1, Part 1, Page 37.
Recording date 1952-10-25 noted by ear, 1952-10-28 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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