Dialect recording in Thornton, Yorkshire
Description
[Side 1] Irvine recalls working aged 10 on local farm scaring birds, discusses father's work at quarry, describes how father used to 'reckon up' [= calculate] wages for fellow workers, talks about wages and typical work 'hewing' [= cutting] flags, recalls taking dinner to father at quarry during school break, mentions walking stick father made from shaft of church organ. [Side 2] Irvine tells anecdote about his father window-tapping and dropping loaf of bread down chimney in response to hearing man praying for food, recalls local merchant selling wet yeast and skimmed milk door-to-door for home baking, comments father was always able to 'addle' [= earn] extra money, remembers food shortage during particularly severe winter and uncle's delivery of essential groceries.
Metadata
| Identifier | zpltsk29 |
| IRN | 726901 |
| Class Mark | LAVC/SRE/D/2/D136 |
| Level | Item |
| Type of Record | Archives - ISAD(G) |
| Peristent Link | http://prototype1.library.leeds.ac.uk/zpltsk29 |
| Collection(s) | Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture |
| Category | Archive |
| Parent Record | English Dialect Sound Recordings (England and Wales) |
| Creator(s) | Ellis, Stanley |
| Date | 28 May 1957 |
| Size and Medium | [Side 1] 05 min. 09 sec., [Side 2] 04 min. 34 sec. |