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Dialect recording in Digby, Lincolnshire

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  • Original object type: Artefact
  • Title: Dialect recording in Digby, Lincolnshire
  • Description:

    [Side 1] Bertie explains how to build stack to ensure rainwater runs off, explains use of 'welts' [= overlapping sections of straw] and 'band' [= binder twine] and stresses importance of position of 'thack pegs' [= thatching pegs], briefly describes making straw rope by hand. [Side 2] Bertie talks about custom of families keeping pig in past, explains pigsty commonly built close to house, compares cost of keeping pig now and in past, describes stuffed 'chine' [= backbone and immediately adjoining flesh of bacon-pig] traditionally eaten at 'Digby Feast' [= annual village festival]. Continued from 1LL0015044 S2; continued at 1LL0015046 S1.

  • Date range: 01 Jul 1951
  • Date: 1951
  • Depositing User: - libemu
  • Date Deposited: 06 Oct 2023 20:41
  • Last Modified: 06 Oct 2023 20:41