Dialect recording in Cullercoats, Northumberland

Description

[Side 1] Mrs. Henry recites passage, 'Cullercoats and the work of the fisher folks', describes week-long mussel-fishing trips and work of fisher wives: baiting lines (140 hooks per line), waiting with 'creels' [= wicker basket] for catch to arrive, selling 'mushels' [= mussels] by the stone at Newcastle Quays, comments fleet of 30 now reduced by half. [Side 2] Mrs. Henry recites the story of the little mouse and the old tom cat in Cullercoats dialect (x2).

Metadata

Identifier pqmmqg1v
IRN 726774
Class Mark LAVC/SRE/D/1/D01
Level Item
Type of Record Archives - ISAD(G)
Peristent Link http://prototype1.library.leeds.ac.uk/pqmmqg1v
Collection(s) Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
Category Archive
Parent Record English Dialect Sound Recordings (Northern England)
Creator(s) Hornsby, G
Date 11 Nov 1938
Size and Medium [Side 1] 03 min. 40 sec., [Side 2] 03 min. 23 sec.

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