Sound Recordings, County Durham

Description

[Collector announcement]; William Dodds, recorded at home in Ebchester on the 14 May 1974; examines and describes archaeological artefacts, excavated by him during the previous six years from the site of a Roman fort on his farm land [and now held in display cases], including pottery fragments, other artefacts, glassware and roofing tiles; talks of other archaeological excavations in the area in the 1930s; examines a millstone, finger and animal prints on pottery items; interest in the finds from the media, schools and students/staff at Durham University; interest in the land from a brewery; selling some of the land for housing; discusses Pot Leeks and showing leeks (September-November); informant dairy farming in Ebchester, and also working in a local iron works; talk of beer (Newcastle Brown Ale). [Tr. 7] [Collector announcement]; George Brown, recorded at home in Ebchester on the 16 May 1974; [gap]; gives a message to Stanley Ellis; talks of Ellis and his caravan and when he came to interview Mr. Brown in 1953, as part of the English Dialect Survey; goes on to talk about working in a coal mine from the age of twelve (coupling tubs, watching doors and driving horses); pushing tubs, aged eighteen; hewing coal, aged twenty-one; accident at work in 1928 (broken leg through fall of stone); compensation claim (1931); gardening; allotments; growing leeks; collector talks of Mr. Brown's original Survey responses, and people's study of them at the University of Leeds. [Tr. 8]

Metadata

Identifier	z4m3wdn7
IRN	414902
Class Mark	LAVC/SRE/A851r
Level	Item
Type of Record	Archives - ISAD(G)
Peristent Link	http://prototype1.library.leeds.ac.uk/z4m3wdn7
Collection(s)	Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
Category	Archive
Parent Record	Audiotape Sound Recordings
Creator(s)	Upton, Clive S
Date	May 1974
Size and Medium	1 x 12.7cm open reel spool, Duration: 45' 59".

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