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Dialect recording in Haggate, Lancashire

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  • Original object type: Artefact
  • Title: Dialect recording in Haggate, Lancashire
  • 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
  • Depositing User: - libemu
  • Date Deposited: 06 Oct 2023 23:15
  • Last Modified: 06 Oct 2023 23:16