Sound Recording, Derbyshire

Description

Tom Woolley, recorded in Kniveton; gives answers to questions about animal (sheep, lambs, pigs) names; wool/fleece; shearing/clipping; marking (branding); sheep fencing and pens; butchering and the slaughtering of sheep; names for sheeps' organs; sheep/cow skins; the knacker dealer; dressing pigs; curing bacon (called flitch nearer Derby) on saltstone; describes the process of curing bacon; the rind, leaf; making lard; names for cats, dogs and rabbits (male/female/young). [Tr. 2] Stanley Ellis, recorded by himself, announces details of a Yorkshire Dialect Society meeting, to be addressed by Hugh Smith of the University of London on the placenames and dialect of the West Riding of Yorkshire. [Meeting to be held in the Parkinson Building of the University of Leeds. No date given.] [Tr. 3]

Metadata

Identifier pjwv6mvl
IRN 414832
Class Mark LAVC/SRE/A781r
Level Item
Type of Record Archives - ISAD(G)
Peristent Link http://prototype1.library.leeds.ac.uk/pjwv6mvl
Collection(s) Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
Category Archive
Parent Record Audiotape Sound Recordings
Creator(s) Ellis, Stanley
Date [May 1956]
Size and Medium 1 x 17.8cm open reel spool, Duration: 20' 31".

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