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Dialect recording in Hargrave, Northamptonshire
Wilson, David S
Apr 1962
[Side 1] Frank talks about ploughing with horses from starting with 'gaw' [= small channel/trench for drawing off water] and finishing with 'headland' [= strip of unploughed land at end of field ploug...
Dialect recording in Litton, Yorkshire
Battersby, Pauline
Nov 1962
[Side 1] James talks about sheep farming incl. rearing of orphan lambs, reflects on importance of experience for shepherds, discusses own sheep farm in past (flock of 500 over 200 acres), describes pr...
Dialect recording in Whittle-le-Woods, Lancashire
Jones, Gordon Pryce
Apr 1962
[Side 1] Dick describes first Christmas at home from WW1 service after 1918 Armistice, recalls very little work available and brother-in-law on dole, talks about visit to Bay Horse public house and re...
Sound Recording, Devon
Read, John (1884-1963)
8 July 1958
[John Read announcement]; John Read, recorded at the home of his friend, Victor Bonham-Carter, in East Anstey, giving his recollections of country life and the dialect in south-eastern Somerset. Talks...