Survey of English Dialects recording in Heddon-on-the-Wall, Northumberland
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- Original object type: Artefact
- Title: Survey of English Dialects recording in Heddon-on-the-Wall, Northumberland
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Description:
[Side 1] Thomas describes in detail how to make cartwheel, explains components, incl. 'nave' [= wooden block at centre of wheel to which spokes are attached and through which axle runs], spokes, 'felly' [= section of wooden rim], shoulders, 'hoop' [= iron rim round wheel] and 'bush' [= metal lining in which axle sits]. [Side 2] Thomas describes components of cart, incl. 'cod' [= axle bearing], 'limber' [= cart-shaft] and 'stay' [= cross-beam end], explains distinction between long-cart and 'coup-cart' [= tip-cart], comments only see 'muck-cart' [= dung-cart] now as most vehicles motorised and making traditional cart too expensive, recalls making barrows out of oak or ash.
- Date range: 21 Mar 1953
- Date: 1953
- Collection: Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
- Physical Identifier: LAVC/SRE/D/2/D082
- URI: http://digital.library.leeds.ac.uk/id/eprint/35039
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