Survey of English Dialects recording in Tuddenham, Suffolk
Description
[Side 1] Bill tells anecdote about elephant escaping from local zoo, talks about 'clipping' [= shearing] season (May to June), recalls regularly clipping 40 sheep a day and 1,000 sheep in a season, initially learnt from father aged 14, compares wages now and in past, briefly discusses lambing season (January to March), recalls often staying up all night and wife bringing out supper and breakfast, describes occasion during World War One when no lights were allowed at night and being startled by unusual noise. [Side 2] Bill continues to tell anecdote about lambing during World War One when no lights were allowed at night and hearing unusual noise, recalls being convinced it was the devil but discovering it was soldiers' horses that had got loose, discusses lambing at night, explains custom of persuading ewe to accept orphan lamb by disguising it in skin of own lamb, recalls severe winters in past.
Metadata
| Identifier | dx1xd5s3 |
| IRN | 726597 |
| Class Mark | LAVC/SRE/D/2/D218 |
| Level | Item |
| Type of Record | Archives - ISAD(G) |
| Peristent Link | http://prototype1.library.leeds.ac.uk/dx1xd5s3 |
| Collection(s) | Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture |
| Category | Archive |
| Parent Record | English Dialect Sound Recordings (England and Wales) |
| Date | Sep 1959 |
| Size and Medium | [Side 1] 04 min. 53 sec., [Side 2] 05 min. 11 sec. |