Dialect recording in Crossland Hill, Yorkshire
Description
[Side 1] Brook talks about work as quarryman, finding 'right' [= good] seam, stresses benefit of placement of crane to remove 'muck' without need for wagons, explains building of wall to hold 'muck' back. [Side 2] Brook explains how to remove stone too 'fast' [= stuck] for 'dog' [= apparatus for hoisting object], describes how to 'bray' [= hit, strike] wedges in with 'mell' [= heavy hammer] and insert plates to lift, recalls series of incidents incl. subsidence caused by quarrying too close to chapel wall, describes dangers of frost for quarrying.
Metadata
| Identifier | b76rwxhy |
| IRN | 726900 |
| Class Mark | LAVC/SRE/D/2/D135 |
| Level | Item |
| Type of Record | Archives - ISAD(G) |
| Peristent Link | http://prototype1.library.leeds.ac.uk/b76rwxhy |
| Collection(s) | Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture |
| Category | Archive |
| Parent Record | English Dialect Sound Recordings (England and Wales) |
| Creator(s) | Ellis, Stanley, Sykes, Donald Richard |
| Date | 07 Jan 1954 |
| Size and Medium | [Side 1] 03 min. 57 sec., [Side 2] 04 min. 51 sec. |