Duration: 00:03:17
Cultures: English
Shelf mark: C908/48
Recording date: 1952/10/25
Recording locations: Skelmanthorpe, Yorkshire: OS Grid Reference(423500,410500)
Producers: University of Leeds
Recordists: Ellis, Stanley (b.1926; male, SED fieldworker)
Speakers: Dyson, Wilsey (b.1876; male, miner and weaver)
Description:
Wilsey recalls an incident when he thought he saw a ghost and briefly describes working conditions when he first started at the local mine as a twelve year old in the late 1880s. The original recording appears to have been paused on one occasion.
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