Sound Recordings, Cornwall
Description
[Collector announcement]; William Willey, recorded by Stanley Ellis in Mullion on the 30 March 1963; answers a selection of questions from the Dieth-Orton dialect survey Questionnaire [various Books]; includes talk of beekeeping. [Tr. 1] [Collector announcement]; Charles Tonkin, recorded at home in Mullion by John Wright, on the 6 December 1958; talks about work on a farm on leaving school; working with horses; fishing - Seine netting, fishing boats and method of fishing; other aspects of his working life (with mason/builder, constructing water works at Newport [?Devon/?Cornwall], bridge building and wireless station at Plymouth); shipwrecks and French wreck during World War One - items of cargo taken/found later; donkeys (and trap); changes in Mullion - new houses. [Tr. 2] [Cassette copy of the currently unplayable recording on tape LAVC/SRE/A808r.]
Metadata
| Identifier | g3cvrlmj |
| IRN | 414925 |
| Class Mark | LAVC/SRE/A874 |
| Level | Item |
| Type of Record | Archives - ISAD(G) |
| Peristent Link | http://prototype1.library.leeds.ac.uk/g3cvrlmj |
| Collection(s) | Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture |
| Category | Archive |
| Parent Record | Audiotape Sound Recordings |
| Creator(s) | Ellis, Stanley, Wakelin, Martyn F, Wright, John T |
| Date | 1958-1963 |
| Size and Medium | 1 audiocassette., Duration: 39' 39". |