Dialect recording in Holdenby, Northamptonshire
Description
[Side 1] Mr Manning compares cost of living now and in past, recalls having skimmed milk direct from farmer, comments could buy sheep's head, heart and 'lights' [= lung] for 6d to feed family, talks briefly about keeping pig and making home-cured bacon, recalls local farmer buying 'dilling' [= runt/weakling of litter] and rearing it successfully to weigh 18 score. [Side 2] Mr Manning talks about first job aged 11 scaring crows with clackers, discusses first adult wages, worked as gardener for 20 years before enlisting for World War 1.
Metadata
| Identifier | vsvqbn81 |
| IRN | 726752 |
| Class Mark | LAVC/SRE/D/2/D380 |
| Level | Item |
| Type of Record | Archives - ISAD(G) |
| Peristent Link | http://prototype1.library.leeds.ac.uk/vsvqbn81 |
| Collection(s) | Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture |
| Category | Archive |
| Parent Record | English Dialect Sound Recordings (England and Wales) |
| Creator(s) | Smart, Jeanette |
| Date | 24 Mar 1951 |
| Size and Medium | [Side 1] 03 min. 59 sec., [Side 2] 02 min. 22 sec. |