Dialect recording in Digby, Lincolnshire

Description

[Side 1] John talks about wages and living standards as young farm worker, describes typical day as waggoner, recalls playing melodeon to horses while sitting on 'bing' [= corn-bin], supplies names of parts of horse's gear in interviewer's photograph, incl. 'bluft' [= blinkers], comments photograph looks like two-horse tandem team 'lading muck' [= carting dung] with 'shaft-horse' [= rear horse] and 'gear-horse' [= lead horse], lists parts of cart, incl. 'gormers' [= cart-ladders placed at front and back of cart to retain load], 'tipe-stick' [= rod/pin that keeps cart body fixed to shafts to prevent cart tipping up] and 'felly' [= section of wooden rim on cartwheel]. [Side 2] John supplies names of implements in traditional kitchen in interviewer's photograph, incl. 'reckon-hook' [= pot hanger/apparatus for hanging kettle over open fire], discusses long association with Salvation Army since 1911, reflects on resurgent membership in Boston and Nottingham unlike local corps in Sleaford, comments other bands able to supply unforms and pay musicians to play, talks about getting into mischief as child and recalls being punished by father for lying about smoking.

Metadata

Identifier lcxnnbjw
IRN 726712
Class Mark LAVC/SRE/D/2/D340
Level Item
Type of Record Archives - ISAD(G)
Peristent Link http://prototype1.library.leeds.ac.uk/lcxnnbjw
Collection(s) Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
Category Archive
Parent Record English Dialect Sound Recordings (England and Wales)
Date 01 Jul 1951
Size and Medium [Side 1] 04 min. 27 sec., [Side 2] 04 min. 19 sec.

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