Sound Recording, Cumbria

Description

[Collector announcement]; Vivian Fisher, recorded at home in Keswick on the 28 April 1972; talks about local gentry; dialect; John Banks and William Penn; childhood memories of Keswick; Queen Mary and the National Trust; changes in local population; the Fishers of Keswick; John Ruskin; recites own dialect poem; talks about his unpublished dialect works; recites dialect poem (fragment) and explains the words; recites numbers in local dialect; the influence of Gaelic; Cumbrian history; relationship with local people; recites dialect poem; proverbs and weatherlore; biographical information; childhood recollections of a funeral (coffin bearers, song, dress); wedding celebrations; Martinmas fairs; circuses/menageries; education; work; foodways - herb pudding, green water tonic; general health; Cumbrian dialect; changes in the community; local dialect - variations, decline; talk of Robert Selby, William Wordsworth, John Ruskin; reference to Mr. Calvert and Wordsworth and Dorothy Wordsworth, Elizabeth Linton and Fletcher Christian; leaving school aged 12/13; musical preferences; recites part of the Lord's Prayer [tape ends]. Vivian Fisher talks about local dialect, and gives examples; local trades and related pub signs; greetings (hand actions); Jacobite history in Keswick; asks about history and dialect in the United States; interest in history; dislike of modern music; liking for classical music; sings 'The Banks of Allenwater'; thoughts on old songs and modern music; recites prayer (own composition) and own dialect poems; the local church (bells); May Day celebrations - maypoles, horse procession, May Queen, fiddle playing, morris dancing, flowers; memories of Queen Victoria's diamond jubilee in 1897 (local celebrations). [Tr. 1] Vivian Fisher, recorded at home in Keswick on the 29 April 1972; asks the collector about placenames in the United States; Cumberland dialect and differences between Cockermouth and Keswick; dialect words for child; Gaelic roots of Cumbrian speech; dialect words for parts of the body; Welsh and Gaelic connections in Cumbrian history; wicker basket owned by VF. [Tr. 2]

Metadata

Identifier xx4kkcgx
IRN 414699
Class Mark LAVC/SRE/A648r
Level Item
Type of Record Archives - ISAD(G)
Peristent Link http://prototype1.library.leeds.ac.uk/xx4kkcgx
Collection(s) Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
Category Archive
Parent Record Audiotape Sound Recordings
Creator(s) Attebery, Louie W
Date April 1972
Size and Medium 1 x 12.7cm open reel spool, Duration: 86' 53".

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