Survey of English Dialects recording in Clifton upon Teme, Worcestershire
Description
[Side 1] Ted describes long working hours and low wages in past, mentions occasionally being invited in to farmhouse for meal and recalls women in domestic service being given food parcels, discusses recent weather and planting, talks about long severe winter of 1895. [Side 2] Ted talks about injury he suffered in 1939 when felling timber, describes long recuperation in infirmary, recalls three occasions as child when he nearly drowned: gust of wind blew him into bath of rainwater as toddler; branch broke while bird nesting in tree ovrehanging brook; fell into 80-foot well.
Metadata
| Identifier | dmbsq1nq |
| IRN | 726573 |
| Class Mark | LAVC/SRE/D/2/D194 |
| Level | Item |
| Type of Record | Archives - ISAD(G) |
| Peristent Link | http://prototype1.library.leeds.ac.uk/dmbsq1nq |
| Collection(s) | Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture |
| Category | Archive |
| Parent Record | English Dialect Sound Recordings (England and Wales) |
| Date | 13 Dec 1955 |
| Size and Medium | [Side 1] 04 min. 45 sec., [Side 2] 04 min. 57 sec. |