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Survey of English Dialects recording in Dolphinholme, Lancashire

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  • Original object type: Artefact
  • Title: Survey of English Dialects recording in Dolphinholme, Lancashire
  • Description:

    [Side 1] Bill describes baking oatcakes over open fire with 'spittle' [= wooden baking shovel] and 'cratch' [= drying rack], talks about owners of Wyreside Hall and working with horses, recalls runaway horse bolting and dying. [Side 2] Bill recalls Jack Smith local horse-driver and last 'town's prentice' [= hired labourer], describes home and school life, brought up by grandparents, left school aged twelve to work in shop then with horses, recalls winning prizes and seeing Buffalo Bill at Kendall Show.

  • Date range: 24 May 1954
  • Date: 1954
  • Depositing User: - libemu
  • Date Deposited: 06 Oct 2023 23:08
  • Last Modified: 06 Oct 2023 23:09