Dialect recording in Scotswood, Newcastle upon Tyne

Audio (Dialect recording in Scotswood, Newcastle upon Tyne)
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Audio (Dialect recording in Scotswood, Newcastle upon Tyne)
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Original object type: Artefact
Title: Dialect recording in Scotswood, Newcastle upon Tyne
Description:
[Side 1] Jocker describes experience as miner, started aged 14 with pit ponies, then stonework, talks about mining before mechanisation, explains importance of oil lamp. [Side 2] Jocker discusses daily safety checks in mine, describes procedure for using electric drill to prepare holes for blasting. Continued at 1LL0015117 S1.
Date range: 15 Nov 1953
Date: 1953