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Survey of English Dialects recording in Swettenham, Cheshire

Archive Item: LAVC/SRE/D/2/D140 Contains digital media

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Type of record: Archive

Title: Survey of English Dialects recording in Swettenham, Cheshire

Level: Item

Classmark: LAVC/SRE/D/2/D140

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

Site Location(s): Subject - Swettenham, Cheshire, England, United Kingdom( 53.2015, -2.29929 )

Date(s): Oct 1957

Language: English

Size and medium: [Side 1] 05 min. 11 sec.; [Side 2] 04 min. 31 sec.

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/726905

Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture

1 - Survey of English Dialects recording in Swettenham, Cheshire

2 - Survey of English Dialects recording in Swettenham, Cheshire

Description

[Side 1] Wilf tells anecdote about stonemason visiting mill and breaking chisel trying to carve initials in millstone, recalls millstream flooding in 1954, describes difference between milling oats and corn. [Side 2] Wilf describes mechanism of millstone and names components, incl. 'damsel' [= projection on spindle of millstone], 'cock-head' [= top section of spindle which bears uppermost millstone] and 'leat' [= open watercourse to conduct water to mill], explains how to control speed of stones and flow of water.

Biography or history

Wilf b. Buglawton, aged 59, school at Buglawton till aged 13; father b. Buglawton, miller; mother b. Cheshire; wife b. Congleton.

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Physical and technical conditions

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

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