Dialect recording in Croft, Lancashire

• Original object type: Artefact

Description

[Side 1] Description of friend's wedding, playing bowls after too much champagne and whisky, anecdotes about local characters. [Side 2] Conversation about threshing by hand, winnowing machines, introduction of threshing machines, remember bomb shell dropping on stacks and seeing first traction engine; discussion of local characters, mention friend's wedding.

• Date range: 11 Apr 1939
• Date: 1939
• Collection: Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
• Physical Identifier: LAVC/SRE/D/1/D56