Survey of English Dialects recording in Wedmore, Somerset
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- Original object type: Artefact
- Title: Survey of English Dialects recording in Wedmore, Somerset
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Description:
[Side 1] Walt talks about making cider with traditional cider-press, mentions feeding 'pomace' [= crushed apples] to cows in field, describes cider-press incl. 'vollier' [= part of cider-press to which pressure is applied], compares farming now and in past, discusses milking by hand, reflects on increased mecahnisation incl. use of tractors and milking machines, recalls working out in fields in freezing conditions. [Side 2] Walt talks about childhood pranks incl. 'tick-button' [= window tapping] and tying neighbour's door knockers together, recalls shooting marbles at windows with catapults and scrumping plums, describes occasion when friend knocked himself out running into tree in orchard while trying to evade policeman when playing tick-button and hiding in pigs' house all night, memories of Guy Fawkes night incl. dressing up, torchlit procession and fireworks.
- Date range: Jul 1956
- Date: 1956
- Collection: Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
- Physical Identifier: LAVC/SRE/D/2/D259
- URI: http://digital.library.leeds.ac.uk/id/eprint/34851
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