Sound Recordings, West Yorkshire and Northumberland
Description
Irvine Brooksbank, recorded in Thornton in May 1957; talks about the house in which he was born; working as a farm lad scaring birds; the farmer he worked for; local quarries and his father book keeping for other workers; Sunday School; Board School; Egypt [local placename] Chapel; residents/congregation in ?Kipping [?part of Thornton]; home bread making and wet yeast sold at the door (also skimmed milk); Mr. Brooksbank's siblings; unemployment and soup kitchens; quarries and quarrymen known as delves/delvers; describes various quarry jobs (e.g. stone dressers) and names for workers; quarries at Idle [?Bradford]; mother's child rearing; joining the Army in 1914. [Tr. 4] Unidentified male, recorded in Heddon-on-the-Wall; answers a selection of questions from Books I-IX of the Dieth-Orton Questionnaire, used in the Survey of English Dialects. [Trs. 5-6]
Metadata
| Identifier | f32j4f6f |
| IRN | 414826 |
| Class Mark | LAVC/SRE/A775r |
| Level | Item |
| Type of Record | Archives - ISAD(G) |
| Peristent Link | http://prototype1.library.leeds.ac.uk/f32j4f6f |
| Collection(s) | Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture |
| Category | Archive |
| Parent Record | Audiotape Sound Recordings |
| Creator(s) | Ellis, Stanley |
| Date | [1950s] |
| Size and Medium | 1 x 17.8cm open reel spool, Duration: 47' 10". |