Survey of English Dialects recording in Kinlet, Shropshire
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- Original object type: Artefact
- Title: Survey of English Dialects recording in Kinlet, Shropshire
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[Side 1] William recalls 'thrashing' [= threshing] by hand, explains use of 'thrail' [= flail] and 'nile' [= striking part of flail], discusses harvesting by hand and comments younger generation no longer know how to cut sheaf, explains traditional method of building 'rick' [= haystack]. [Side 2] William explains how to thatch 'rick' [= haystack], incl. use of pegs and 'hay-bands' [= rope of twisted straw used to bind bundle of hay], discusses storage of grain and journey to flour-mill to grind wheat.
- Date range: Jan 1955
- Date: 1955
- Collection: Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
- Physical Identifier: LAVC/SRE/D/2/D162
- URI: http://digital.library.leeds.ac.uk/id/eprint/34754
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