Dialect recording in Rothbury, Northumberland

Audio (Dialect recording in Rothbury, Northumberland)
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Audio (Dialect recording in Rothbury, Northumberland)
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Original object type: Artefact
Title: Dialect recording in Rothbury, Northumberland
Description:
[Side 1] Billy and John remember white vixen and cubs being presented by Lord Armstrong to Edinburgh Zoo, discuss poaching and trout fishing in River Coquet. [Side 2] Billy and John talk about local industrialist Lord Armstrong (1st Baron Armstrong, 1810-1900), describe his pioneering inventions, incl. installing hydroelectric power at Cragside and producing rifles and shells. John recalls his grandfather refusing to sell house to Armstrong.
Date range: 16 Mar 1939
Date: 1939