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Holmbridge Response Book - 6Y30
Wright, Peter
Oct 1951
Response book recording the answers given by informants during the Survey of English Dialect. It includes 9 sections that cover a range of topics relating to work, domestic and social life. Answers ar...
Survey of English Dialects recording in Holmbridge, Yorkshire
Dyson, B Ronald
Sep 1952
[Side 1] Mrs. Earnshaw recalls cleaning fire-grate, emptying ash-hole and black-leading grate in past, brief conversation about health and eyesight. [Side 2] Mrs. Earnshaw describes starting work 'pi...
Survey of English Dialects recording in Holmbridge, Yorkshire
Dyson, B Ronald
Sep 1952
[Side 1] Mrs. Earnshaw talks about local ironworks, recalls lighting fire in past with flint and baking bread in front of fire, remembers eating 'tea-cake' [= bread roll] with brother when working at ...
Survey of English Dialects recording in Holmbridge, Yorkshire
Dyson, B Ronald
Sep 1952
[Side 1] Mrs. Earnshaw discusses food in past, incl. 'butter shive' [= slice of bread and butter], recalls first holiday aged 50 to Blackpool, talks about visit of pigman to stick pig, remembers makin...
Survey of English Dialects recording in Holmbridge, Yorkshire
Dyson, B Ronald
Sep 1952
[Side 1] Mrs. Earnshaw describes ring game played as child, recalls visit of nephew from USA by areoplane, talks about extended family locally. [Side 2] Mrs. Earnshaw describes working conditions in ...
Book V: The House and Housekeeping [Holmbridge Response Book]
Wright, Peter
Oct 1951
Words and phrases that answer the questions from the Survey of English Dialect relating to the house and housekeeping. The answers of informant Mrs Earnshaw recorded by fieldworker Peter Wright in t...