Dialect recording in Barton in Fabis, Nottinghamshire
Description
[Side 1] Male speaker talks about playing marbles, mentions 'taw' [= large marble], describes ring game, discusses types of marbles, recalls using ginger beer bottles to make own marbles, tells anecdote about mother chasing away local boy who had reputation for pinching marbles, talks about keeping 'pullets' [= chickens] and incident with fox. [Side 2] Male speaker tells anecdote about local farmer considered very particular, recalls several pranks played by farm wprkers incl. e.g. cutting holes in ladder, brief discussion of local gypsum.
Metadata
| Identifier | hkw98vyj |
| IRN | 726738 |
| Class Mark | LAVC/SRE/D/2/D366 |
| Level | Item |
| Type of Record | Archives - ISAD(G) |
| Peristent Link | http://prototype1.library.leeds.ac.uk/hkw98vyj |
| Collection(s) | Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture |
| Category | Archive |
| Parent Record | English Dialect Sound Recordings (England and Wales) |
| Creator(s) | Greensmith, Pauline R |
| Date | Sep 1957 |
| Size and Medium | [Side 1] 04 min. 59 sec., [Side 2] 04 min. 05 sec. |