Millennium Memory Bank
Uswayford, Alwinton, Northumberland (cf. SED Thropton)
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Type
sound
Duration
00:05:24
Cultures
English
Shelf mark
C900/11027
Recording date
1999/02/11
Recording locations
Uswayford, Northumberland: OS Grid Reference(388500,614500)
Producers
BBC
Recordist
Jones, Virtue (female, interviewer)
Speakers
Telfer, Neil (b.1935/08/15, male, quarry manager)
Description
Neil remembers the isolation of the family farm he grew up on in Uswayford on the fells above Alwinton. He describes how provisions were delivered to such a remote location and the measures taken to prepare for the possibility of being cut off in winter. He speaks admiringly of his mother cooking for such a large household. Windyhaugh is a hamlet in the Usway valley and Wooler a town to the northeast.
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