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Survey of English Dialects recording in Skelmanthorpe, Yorkshire

Archive Item: LAVC/SRE/D/2/D133 Contains digital media

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Type of record: Archive

Title: Survey of English Dialects recording in Skelmanthorpe, Yorkshire

Level: Item

Classmark: LAVC/SRE/D/2/D133

Creator(s): Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)

Site Location(s): Subject - Skelmanthorpe, Kirklees, West Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom( 53.5906, -1.65173 )

Date(s): Feb 1953

Language: English

Size and medium: [Side 1] 04 min. 45 sec.; [Side 2] 03 min. 00 sec.

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/726898

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 talks about his brother who was a gravedigger and a miner and describes different ideas about religion. [Side 2] Wilsey continues anecdote about telling local parson the story of Siddhartha incl. his encounters with a blind woman and a lame man.

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 for LAVC/SRE/D/2/131, 75 written in Survey of English Dialects Basic Material, Volume 1, Part 1, Page 37.

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

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