Dialect recording in Haggate, Lancashire
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- Original object type: Artefact
- Title: Dialect recording in Haggate, Lancashire
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Description:
[Side 1] Albert talks about his family, describes great-grandfather's and great-uncle's work as gamekeeper and 'water-watcher' [= water-bailiff] catching poachers, recalls 'laking' [= playing] out, mentions he lived with uncle during school term, talks briefly about breeding pigs, comments he knew everybody in Haggate in past. [Side 2] Albert talks about methods and techniques of quarrying, explains different layers, incl. shale, flags and 'random' [= hard seam used on roads/paving], comments local quarries closed due to increased use of concrete.
- Date range: 26 Feb 1954
- Date: 1954
- Collection: Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
- Physical Identifier: LAVC/SRE/D/2/D109
- URI: http://digital.library.leeds.ac.uk/id/eprint/35065
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