Survey of English Dialects recording in Scopwick, Lincolnshire
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Type of record: Archive
Title: Survey of English Dialects recording in Scopwick, Lincolnshire
Classmark: LAVC/SRE/D/2/D153
Creator(s): Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)
Site Location(s): Subject - Scopwick, North Kesteven, Lincolnshire, England, United Kingdom( 53.1091, -0.40139 )
Date(s): 29 Sep 1952
Language: English
Size and medium: [Side 1] 05 min. 15 sec.; [Side 2] 05 min. 17 sec.
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/726918
Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
1 - Survey of English Dialects recording in Scopwick, Lincolnshire
2 - Survey of English Dialects recording in Scopwick, Lincolnshire
Description
[Side 1] Charles recalls father visiting neighbouring farmer and being shown 'gilt' [= young sow] and litter of piglets, neighbour convinced 'reckling' [= runt] unlikely to survive so Charles' father offered to buy it but neighbour wouldn't take any money, Charles' father took reckling home, kept it in 'hovel' [= shed] and Charles helped feed it from 'titty-bottle' [= baby's feeding bottle]. [Side 2] Charles recalls how pig would 'kall' [= call out, squeal] for food, explains once it had 'tushes' [ = tusks, teeth] it was able to eat 'force' [= gruel used to fatten animals] so father transferred it to pig-sty and it finally weighed 39 and a half stone when slaughtered at eighteen months.
Biography or history
Charles b. Scopwick, aged 8, local school till aged 10, whole life in Scopwick; father b. Leasingham; mother b. Scopwick; wife b. Scopwick.
Provenance
Charles's age of 83 noted by ear, 82 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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