Dialect recording in Holdenby, Northamptonshire

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Title: Dialect recording in Holdenby, Northamptonshire
Description:
[Side 1] Mr Manning talks about building 'rick' [= stack] incl. use of 'pitch-hole' [= hole in side of stack where pitcher stands], describes how to thatch stack incl. preparing 'yelms' [= bundles of straw] and 'stelshes' [= section of thatching below gable]. [Side 2] Mr Manning talks about ploughing with horses, describes how to measure 'headland' [= strip of unploughed land at end of field ploughed at right angles last] and set out field, explains process of 'splitting the ridge' [= cutting trench down middle of raised ridge in ploughed field] and 'gee' [= turning to the right], comments expected to plough acre a day with pair of horses. Continued at 1LL0015112 S1.
Date range: 24 Mar 1951
Date: 1951