Survey of English Dialects recording in Longtown, Cumberland
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- Original object type: Artefact
- Title: Survey of English Dialects recording in Longtown, Cumberland
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Description:
[Side 1] Rebecca recounts several experiences as midwife, recalls time when young mother and baby died in childbirth before she could assist, describes how woman had had premonition several days earlier. [Side 2] Rebecca describes farm work, recalls milking 'kye' [= cows] in 'byre' [=cowshed] at Crofthead and Netherby, delivering milk by donkey, making 'churn-milk' [= buttermilk], taking eggs and poultry to Netherby, memories of Netherby Hall in past.
- Date range: 11 Sep 1955
- Date: 1955
- Collection: Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
- Physical Identifier: LAVC/SRE/D/2/D088
- URI: http://digital.library.leeds.ac.uk/id/eprint/35045
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