Dialect recording in Thornton, Yorkshire
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Type of record: Archive
Title: Dialect recording in Thornton, Yorkshire
Classmark: LAVC/SRE/D/2/D136
Creator(s): Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)
Site Location(s): Subject - Thornton, West Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom( 53.7833, -1.85 )
Date(s): 28 May 1957
Language: English
Size and medium: [Side 1] 05 min. 09 sec.; [Side 2] 04 min. 34 sec.
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/726901
Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
1 - Dialect recording in Thornton, Yorkshire
2 - Dialect recording in Thornton, Yorkshire
Description
[Side 1] Irvine recalls working aged 10 on local farm scaring birds, discusses father's work at quarry, describes how father used to 'reckon up' [= calculate] wages for fellow workers, talks about wages and typical work 'hewing' [= cutting] flags, recalls taking dinner to father at quarry during school break, mentions walking stick father made from shaft of church organ. [Side 2] Irvine tells anecdote about his father window-tapping and dropping loaf of bread down chimney in response to hearing man praying for food, recalls local merchant selling wet yeast and skimmed milk door-to-door for home baking, comments father was always able to 'addle' [= earn] extra money, remembers food shortage during particularly severe winter and uncle's delivery of essential groceries.
Biography or history
Irvine b. Thornton, aged 71, whole life in Thornton.
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Physical and technical conditions
78 r.p.m., cellulose nitrate on aluminium
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