Survey of English Dialects recording in Ribchester, Lancashire
Description
[Side 1] Bill recalls generosity and popularity of local character and ex-skipper Harry Gavin, tells anecdote about misunderstanding instructions to heave 'ho' or 'how', Bill talks about keeping and slaughtering pigs, incl. use of 'whittle' [= butcher's knife], recalls pig 'skriking' [= screeching], describes how they used to 'hing' [= hang] pigs up, salt and 'scalden' [= scald] them to make bacon. [Side 2] Bill and Bob compare living conditions now and in past, Bill comments food plentiful but wages low, describes typical weekly diet of potatoes, onions, bacon, 'poddish' [= porridge], 'blue milk' [= skimmed milk] and 'treacle-cake' [= bread and treacle], recalls wearing clogs on Sunday and buying velvet jacket.
Metadata
| Identifier | f9mm8k9s |
| IRN | 726869 |
| Class Mark | LAVC/SRE/D/2/D104 |
| Level | Item |
| Type of Record | Archives - ISAD(G) |
| Peristent Link | http://prototype1.library.leeds.ac.uk/f9mm8k9s |
| Collection(s) | Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture |
| Category | Archive |
| Parent Record | English Dialect Sound Recordings (England and Wales) |
| Creator(s) | Ellis, Stanley |
| Date | Mar 1954 |
| Size and Medium | [Side 1] 05 min. 21 sec., [Side 2] 04 min. 23 sec. |