Dialect recording in Crossland Hill, Yorkshire
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- Original object type: Artefact
- Title: Dialect recording in Crossland Hill, Yorkshire
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Description:
[Side 1] Brook talks about work as quarryman, finding 'right' [= good] seam, stresses benefit of placement of crane to remove 'muck' without need for wagons, explains building of wall to hold 'muck' back. [Side 2] Brook explains how to remove stone too 'fast' [= stuck] for 'dog' [= apparatus for hoisting object], describes how to 'bray' [= hit, strike] wedges in with 'mell' [= heavy hammer] and insert plates to lift, recalls series of incidents incl. subsidence caused by quarrying too close to chapel wall, describes dangers of frost for quarrying.
- Date range: 07 Jan 1954
- Date: 1954
- Collection: Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
- Physical Identifier: LAVC/SRE/D/2/D135
- URI: http://digital.library.leeds.ac.uk/id/eprint/35091
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