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Dialect recording in Crossland Hill, Yorkshire

[img] Audio (Dialect recording in Crossland Hill, Yorkshire)
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  • Original object type: Artefact
  • Title: Dialect recording in Crossland Hill, Yorkshire
  • 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
  • Depositing User: - libemu
  • Date Deposited: 06 Oct 2023 23:45
  • Last Modified: 06 Oct 2023 23:47