Survey of English Dialects recording in Deerhurst, Gloucestershire

[Side 1] Jim talks about severe flooding in past, recalls moving everything upstairs, provisions being delivered by boat and handed up to first floor by pitchfork, wading waist deep in water to get to and from house, describes flood defences and using 'stanks' [= planks] to access fields and buildings, recalls several individual floods incl. occasion when ducks became stranded in coalhouse, being evacuated while father stayed in flooded house for fortnight, carrying slaughtered pig upstairs at Christmas Eve when several inches of water came into home, recalls man getting stuck in mud after jumping from 'pig-cote' [= pigsty], recalls walking across planks in dark to get to neighbour's house for game of cards, comments banks and 'slooshes' [= sluices] no longer maintained. [Side 2] Jim discusses catching eels with elver net in past, mentions netting salmon now forbidden due to pressure from rod and line clubs, compares commercial traffic on river now and in past, typical transport in past stone or coal now mainly oil tankers.