Dialect recording in Morebattle, Roxburghshire

Description

[Side 1] Mr Currie tells an anecdote about a minister seeking selection for the local kirk, general discussion of local flower show, leeks, barley soups, scabious. [Side 2] Mr Currie recites the story of the little mouse and the old tom cat in Morebattle dialect, tells joke about a Scottish farmer in Paris, tells joke about the bishop and the kettle.

Metadata

Identifier dzmt6vyy
IRN 726831
Class Mark LAVC/SRE/D/1/D59
Level Item
Type of Record Archives - ISAD(G)
Peristent Link http://prototype1.library.leeds.ac.uk/dzmt6vyy
Collection(s) Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
Category Archive
Parent Record English Dialect Sound Recordings (Northern England)
Creator(s) Dieth, Eugen, Orton, Harold
Date 23 Aug 1939
Size and Medium [Side 1] 04 min. 21 sec., [Side 2] 04 min. 03 sec.

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