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Survey of English Dialects recording in Borrowby, Yorkshire
Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)
15 Apr 1955
[Side 1] Jack talks about haymaking, cutting clover at 'backend' [= late autumn], discusses farm sizes and farm horses, compares agricultural practice now and in past, remembers father mowing by hand ...
Survey of English Dialects recording in Outwell, Norfolk
03 Apr 1957
[Side 1] William explains how to 'rode' [= to dredge/clear out] 'dyke' [= ditch], lists tools used incl. 'hodding-spade' [= implement used to clear out dyke], and 'crome' [= hook/fork with prongs at r...
Survey of English Dialects recording in Harmondsworth, Middlesex
28 Apr 1952
[Side 1] John talks about farm horses, lists typical feed, comments on series of photographs showing horses at work, names parts of 'trace-harness' [= harness for horse pulling plough] incl. 'hames '[...
Sound Recordings, Wiltshire
Kylstra, Henk E
1961
Francis Foyle and Edward Scammell, recorded in Fovant; talk about farm implements (forks/prongs); fruit and vegetable growing for market; informants' places of birth; corn, barley and other crop growi...