Dialect recording in Cullercoats, Northumberland

• Original object type: Artefact

Description

[Side 1] Mrs. Henry recites passage, 'Cullercoats and the work of the fisher folks', describes week-long mussel-fishing trips and work of fisher wives: baiting lines (140 hooks per line), waiting with 'creels' [= wicker basket] for catch to arrive, selling 'mushels' [= mussels] by the stone at Newcastle Quays, comments fleet of 30 now reduced by half. [Side 2] Mrs. Henry recites the story of the little mouse and the old tom cat in Cullercoats dialect (x2).

• Date range: 11 Nov 1938
• Date: 1938
• Collection: Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
• Physical Identifier: LAVC/SRE/D/1/D01