Survey of English Dialects recording in Dolphinholme, Lancashire
Description
[Side 1] Bill describes baking oatcakes over open fire with 'spittle' [= wooden baking shovel] and 'cratch' [= drying rack], talks about owners of Wyreside Hall and working with horses, recalls runaway horse bolting and dying. [Side 2] Bill recalls Jack Smith local horse-driver and last 'town's prentice' [= hired labourer], describes home and school life, brought up by grandparents, left school aged twelve to work in shop then with horses, recalls winning prizes and seeing Buffalo Bill at Kendall Show.
Metadata
| Identifier | jvsgztml |
| IRN | 726868 |
| Class Mark | LAVC/SRE/D/2/D103 |
| Level | Item |
| Type of Record | Archives - ISAD(G) |
| Peristent Link | http://prototype1.library.leeds.ac.uk/jvsgztml |
| Collection(s) | Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture |
| Category | Archive |
| Parent Record | English Dialect Sound Recordings (England and Wales) |
| Creator(s) | Ellis, Stanley |
| Date | 24 May 1954 |
| Size and Medium | [Side 1] 04 min. 39 sec., [Side 2] 04 min. 28 sec. |