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Dialect recording in Cullercoats, Northumberland

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  • Original object type: Artefact
  • Title: Dialect recording in Cullercoats, Northumberland
  • Description:

    [Side 1] Mrs. Henry recites passage, 'Cullercoats and the work of the fisher folks', describes week-long mussel-fishing trips and work of fisher wives: baiting lines (140 hooks per line), waiting with 'creels' [= wicker basket] for catch to arrive, selling 'mushels' [= mussels] by the stone at Newcastle Quays, comments fleet of 30 now reduced by half. [Side 2] Mrs. Henry recites the story of the little mouse and the old tom cat in Cullercoats dialect (x2).

  • Date range: 11 Nov 1938
  • Date: 1938
  • Depositing User: - libemu
  • Date Deposited: 06 Oct 2023 21:35
  • Last Modified: 06 Oct 2023 21:35