Survey of English Dialects recording in Ribchester, Lancashire

[Side 1] Bill recalls generosity and popularity of local character and ex-skipper Harry Gavin, tells anecdote about misunderstanding instructions to heave 'ho' or 'how', Bill talks about keeping and slaughtering pigs, incl. use of 'whittle' [= butcher's knife], recalls pig 'skriking' [= screeching], describes how they used to 'hing' [= hang] pigs up, salt and 'scalden' [= scald] them to make bacon. [Side 2] Bill and Bob compare living conditions now and in past, Bill comments food plentiful but wages low, describes typical weekly diet of potatoes, onions, bacon, 'poddish' [= porridge], 'blue milk' [= skimmed milk] and 'treacle-cake' [= bread and treacle], recalls wearing clogs on Sunday and buying velvet jacket.