Survey of English Dialects recording in All Stretton, Shropshire
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Type of record: Archive
Title: Survey of English Dialects recording in All Stretton, Shropshire
Classmark: LAVC/SRE/D/2/D159
Creator(s): Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)
Site Location(s): Subject - All Stretton, Church Stretton, Shropshire, England, United Kingdom( 52.5539, -2.79788 )
Date(s): Jan 1955
Language: English
Size and medium: [Side 1] 04 min. 55 sec.; [Side 2] 04 min. 48 sec.
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/726924
Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
1 - Survey of English Dialects recording in All Stretton, Shropshire
2 - Survey of English Dialects recording in All Stretton, Shropshire
Description
[Side 1] Jack talks about tax levied on smallholdings during war, recalls severe winter of 1947, comments no compensation for loss of sheep, describes elderly neighbour and family, memories of village school and childhood. [Side 2] Jack recalls buying first sheep, describes typical year in sheep farming, remembers hiring pair of horses out to neighbours for ploughing, discusses traditional implements and techniques used to 'pleach' [= intertwine branches of brushwood to form/repair hedge] hedge.
Biography or history
Jack b. All Stretton, aged 72, whole life in All Stretton.
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Physical and technical conditions
78 r.p.m., cellulose nitrate on aluminium
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