Sound Recordings, North Yorkshire

Description

Compilation of Survey of English Dialects fieldwork recordings (copies) for North Yorkshire locations 6Y3-8. The majority of the original recordings were made by Stanley Ellis, in 1952 and 1955. Harold Orton's recording of a speaker from Askrigg is undated. The date when this copy tape was made is not known. [Collector announcement]; Ronald Easton, a farmer, recorded in one of his farm buildings in Skelton; talks about farming; wages; hired labour (living at home); farm horses and horse breaking, accidents and injuries; ploughing; sowing, haymaking; mowing with a scythe. [Tr. 1] [Collector announcement]; Arthur Agar, a farmer, recorded at home in Egton; talks about his grandfather mowing with a scythe, and the pay he received; informant's (mixed) farm; livestock; showing cattle; the weather and bad winters; farming career; describes Egton hirings (November 5th), including private cattle sales. [Tr. 2] [Collector announcement]; George Fothergill, retired stonewaller and country mason, recorded at home in Dent; talks about sheep breeding (tupping); salving (describes salve) and dipping sheep; shearing (clipping); the names given to sheep according to their age and the numbers of times they have been clipped; pig killing and the meat from a pig; maggots in sheep. [Tr. 3] [Collector announcement]; Cowper [Cooper] Peacock, a retired farmer, recorded in Muker; talks about haymaking - mowing with a scythe, turning the grass and making cocks of hay; Irish agricultural labourers; mechanisation; milk collecting; grazing cattle; sheep; pig keeping; describes pig killing and processing; pork meat cuts and dry salting. [Tr. 4] [Announcement]; Mr. R. M. Cloughton, a sheep farmer, recorded in Askrigg; describes the process of drystone walling - technique, procedure, the names for stones; describes different types of sheep marks, including horn branding; driving sheep in the snow; sheep shearing. [Tr. 5] [Collector announcement]; Male [Jim Eden], a retired saddler, recorded at home in Bedale; relates an anecdote about a man and a balloon; and tells a story regarding a travelling draper. [Tr. 6]

Metadata

Identifier qfvzq53m
IRN 414772
Class Mark LAVC/SRE/A721r
Level Item
Type of Record Archives - ISAD(G)
Peristent Link http://prototype1.library.leeds.ac.uk/qfvzq53m
Collection(s) Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
Category Archive
Parent Record Audiotape Sound Recordings
Creator(s) Ellis, Stanley, Orton, Harold
Date [1960-1980]
Size and Medium 1 x 12.7cm open reel spool, Duration: 48' 11".

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