Survey of English Dialects recording in Swettenham, Cheshire
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- Original object type: Artefact
- Title: Survey of English Dialects recording in Swettenham, Cheshire
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Description:
[Side 1] Wilf tells anecdote about stonemason visiting mill and breaking chisel trying to carve initials in millstone, recalls millstream flooding in 1954, describes difference between milling oats and corn. [Side 2] Wilf describes mechanism of millstone and names components, incl. 'damsel' [= projection on spindle of millstone], 'cock-head' [= top section of spindle which bears uppermost millstone] and 'leat' [= open watercourse to conduct water to mill], explains how to control speed of stones and flow of water.
- Date range: Oct 1957
- Date: 1957
- Collection: Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
- Physical Identifier: LAVC/SRE/D/2/D140
- URI: http://digital.library.leeds.ac.uk/id/eprint/35096
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