Survey of English Dialects recording in Long Crendon, Buckinghamshire

Description

[Side 1] Ernest talks about first wages as young farm worker, briefly describes working day and lists typical tasks as farm worker, incl. harvesting, muck spreading, milking, explains how he became threshing-machine driver. [Side 2] Ernest talks about price of food and basic commodities in past, recalls uncle keeping pig, describes process of killing and curing bacon, extolls virtues of home-cured ham and bacon 'clanger' [= dumpling], describes typical weekly food, incl. Sunday joint or beef pudding. Continued at 1LL0014946 S1.

Metadata

Identifier cm8lg5gd
IRN 726617
Class Mark LAVC/SRE/D/2/D238
Level Item
Type of Record Archives - ISAD(G)
Peristent Link http://prototype1.library.leeds.ac.uk/cm8lg5gd
Collection(s) Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
Category Archive
Parent Record English Dialect Sound Recordings (England and Wales)
Date Dec 1957
Size and Medium [Side 1] 04 min. 48 sec., [Side 2] 04 min. 56 sec.

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