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Dialect recording in Wall, Northumberland

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

    [Side 1] Memories of various pranks incl. putting hen down neighbour's chimney and friends taking blame, remember Margaret Henderson selling tobacco for halfpenny, anecdote about Ned Telfer persuading farmer's wife to give him her home-baked 'girdle cakes' [= griddle cakes] by pretending to beat pig for eating his 'bait' [=packed lunch], anecdote about lodger persuading landlady to increase bait rations. [Side 2] Ridley tells series of anecdotes about World War 1 incl. wearing boots out retreating and stealing pair from German soldiers behind enemy lines, slipping over repeatedly while retreating.

  • Date range: Jun 1939
  • Date: 1939
  • Depositing User: - libemu
  • Date Deposited: 06 Oct 2023 21:55
  • Last Modified: 06 Oct 2023 21:56