Dialect recording in Heywood, Lancashire
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- Original object type: Artefact
- Title: Dialect recording in Heywood, Lancashire
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Description:
[Side 1] Sam tells series of anecdotes incl. his efforts to trace descendants of local man sent to Botany Bay, describes trip by locals to Belle Vue (former zoo). [Side 2] Sam tells series of anecdote incl. local woman who only knew husband by nickname, local man who frequently knelt to pray in street, workhouse inmate shifting stones from A to B and back again, local blind pianist, briefly mentions donkey/pony races held locally in past. (NB. Sam frequently uses archaic dialect forms incl. e.g. 'aks' [= ask] and 'hoo' [= she]).
- Date range: 03 Feb 1956
- Date: 1956
- Collection: Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
- Physical Identifier: LAVC/SRE/D/2/D111
- URI: http://digital.library.leeds.ac.uk/id/eprint/35067
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