Survey of English Dialects recording in Hoar Cross, Staffordshire

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Title: Survey of English Dialects recording in Hoar Cross, Staffordshire
Description:
[Side 1] Jim recalls first wages were 'bob' [= shilling] a day, remembers buying Ogden's Tabs [= cigarette brand], talks about various jobs incl. starting work on Rangemoor estate aged 18. [Side 2] Jim talks about building and thatching haystack, describes threshing by hand.
Date range: 06 Jan 1955
Date: 1955