Sound Recording, County Durham
Description
[Announcement: Clive Upton]; Herbert Hodgson, recorded at home in Bishop Middleham; discusses with Harold Orton playing football for Bowburn ; attending Byers Green school from the age of five; discusses the village of Cornforth (known as doggy) and the pronunciation of the name; talk of Orton's relatives living in Bishop Middleham; local placenames; pit work from the age of fourteen, sorting stone from coal on screens; tipping tubs at the age of fifteen; hours and wages; didn't work underground but discusses underground workers (drivers, pullers, hewers, stone men); Cablin' Day (allocation of work location underground through a lottery); describes miners' clothes; bait (food); cigarettes (Woodbines known as coffin nails); chewing twist tobacco; washing (not backs); lists locations from where miners travelled; informant's parents living amongst Irish people (blast furnace workers); (respiratory) illnesses; non-work clothes; pronounces names of work clothes, miners' tools, agricultural/garden implements; numbers and the pronunciation of; children's games - Orton describes the game finger o' thumb; Mr. Hodgson describes a group game involving one child supporting a number of others on his back, against a wall, until the combined weight causes collapse; pronunciation of various words - Orton gives examples from Leeds; fireplace cooking - describes the fireplace arrangement and utensils; insect names, including lops [lice]; hen huts/houses; names for chickens. Interview continues with the pronunciation of animal names; calls to animals; expressions for I don't believe it; names for work friends; drinking; apple cores; terms for mines/schools when they are closed; school teachers; names for pit employees; church and male voice choir singing; amateur dramatics; bird names; local brewery, demolished in 1966; insect names; pigeon racing and training; describes a pigeon loft; pronunciation of more words relating to berries and flowers, farm buildings and implements, human dwellings; talks of whippet racing; describes a quoit and the game of quoits; describes the games duckstone, tip-cat and marbles [Orton describes his childhood version of tip-cat, similar to knur and spell] [tape ends].
Metadata
| Identifier | n1hq48nr |
| IRN | 414906 |
| Class Mark | LAVC/SRE/A855r |
| Level | Item |
| Type of Record | Archives - ISAD(G) |
| Peristent Link | http://prototype1.library.leeds.ac.uk/n1hq48nr |
| Collection(s) | Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture |
| Category | Archive |
| Parent Record | Audiotape Sound Recordings |
| Creator(s) | Upton, Clive S, Orton, Harold |
| Date | 5 June 1974 |
| Size and Medium | 1 x 12.7cm open reel spool, Duration: 97' 28". |