Survey of English Dialects recording in Hoar Cross, Staffordshire

Description

[Side 1] Jim recalls first wages were 'bob' [= shilling] a day, remembers buying Ogden's Tabs [= cigarette brand], talks about various jobs incl. starting work on Rangemoor estate aged 18. [Side 2] Jim talks about building and thatching haystack, describes threshing by hand.

Metadata

Identifier bb837x75
IRN 726550
Class Mark LAVC/SRE/D/2/D171
Level Item
Type of Record Archives - ISAD(G)
Peristent Link http://prototype1.library.leeds.ac.uk/bb837x75
Collection(s) Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
Category Archive
Parent Record English Dialect Sound Recordings (England and Wales)
Date 06 Jan 1955
Size and Medium [Side 1] 04 min. 32 sec., [Side 2] 04 min. 37 sec.

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