Sound Recordings, Lancashire
Description
Compilation of Survey of English Dialects fieldwork recordings (copies) from Lancashire locations 5La1-5 and 5La8-10. The original Stanley Ellis recordings were made March to June 1954, and Peter Wright's Fleetwood recording was made in June 1951. The date when this copy tape was made is not known. [Collector announcement]; Boss Turnbull and Tom Birkett, quarrymen, recorded in conversation in Mr. Birkett's Coniston house. [Tr. 2] [Collector announcement]; Tom Atkinson, recorded at home in Cartmel, talks about his working life; farming; quarrying; Council work; catching moles, stoats and weasels; farm and quarry work; travelling to/from Kendal; anecdote re. an old horse; recollections of severe winters. [Tr. 3] [Collector announcement]; Bill Cross, recorded at home in Dolphinholme, talks about making oatcakes; horses; family's upbringing; leaving school aged twelve; first (shop) job; farming and work as a horseman. [Tr. 4] [Collector announcement]; Robert Smallbridge [Swarbrick] and William Wright, retired fishermen, recorded in Fleetwood; talk of fishing smacks and crew; keeping watch at sea; sailing in bad weather; rescuing a herring boat; whiskey. [Tr. 5] [Collector announcement]; Bill Patchett, retired mill hand, recorded in the Ribchester home of Bob Forest; talks about shifting a cabin; a local fisherman, Harry Galvin; pig killing; living conditions (past and present); money; factory stoppages; working days; food and meals; clothing. [Tr. 6] [Collector announcement]; Jim Wade, retired farmer, recorded at home in Read; talks about cross-breed sheep and their characteristics; tupping time; hill sheep farming; sheep shearing (clipping). [Tr. 7] [Collector announcement]; four retired fishermen, all aged about seventy, recorded in Marshside; talk about a fishermen's strike and the involvement of the police. [Tr. 8] [Announcement by Stanley Ellis]; Syllabic nasal consonant in the word rags, recorded in a conversation by Peter Wright. [Tr. 9]
Metadata
| Identifier | mfdncf91 |
| IRN | 414770 |
| Class Mark | LAVC/SRE/A719r |
| Level | Item |
| Type of Record | Archives - ISAD(G) |
| Peristent Link | http://prototype1.library.leeds.ac.uk/mfdncf91 |
| Collection(s) | Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture |
| Category | Archive |
| Parent Record | Audiotape Sound Recordings |
| Creator(s) | Ellis, Stanley, Wright, Peter |
| Date | [1960-1980] |
| Size and Medium | 1 x 12.7cm open reel spool, Duration: 59' 28". |