Survey of English Dialects
Great Barford, Bedfordshire
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Type
sound
Duration
00:07:48
Cultures
English
Shelf mark
C908/63
Recording date
1958
Recording locations
Great Barford, Bedfordshire: OS Grid Reference(512500,252500)
Producers
University of Leeds
Recordist
Ellis, Stanley (b.1926
Speakers
Simons, W. (b.1889, male, farmer)
Description
Mr Simons tells the story of a runaway bull that broke his brother’s collar-bone. The original recording appears to have been paused on a number of occasions. Blunham is a village to the southeast of Great Barford and Ravensden a village to the northwest.
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Great Barford, Bedfordshire
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