Dialect recording in Rothbury, Northumberland
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- Original object type: Artefact
- Title: Dialect recording in Rothbury, Northumberland
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Description:
[Side 1] Jane and George talk about Rothbury Races, recall year bridge collapsed and horse called Sultan breaking its neck, discuss forthcoming races and hope for decent weather, describe watching races in snowstorms, reminisce about making own entertainment in past. [Side 2] George remembers buying fishing tackle from Jane's shop to go trout fishing; Jane reads from letter describing Rothbury Tansy [= Shrovetide Feast] in past.
- Date range: Mar 1939
- Date: 1939
- Collection: Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
- Physical Identifier: LAVC/SRE/D/1/D43
- URI: http://digital.library.leeds.ac.uk/id/eprint/35012
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