Survey of English Dialects
St Buryan, Cornwall
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Type
sound
Duration
00:06:03
Cultures
English
Shelf mark
C908/28
Recording date
1963/03/30
Recording locations
St Buryan, Cornwall: OS Grid Reference(140500,25500)
Producers
University of Leeds
Recordist
Ellis, Stanley (b.1926
Speakers
Strick, William Thomas (b.1889, male, retired farm labourer, unidentified (female)
Description
William talks about his early working days on the farm and compares modern working conditions and food production with those of his younger days. St Levan is a village just to the southwest of St Buryan and Penzance a town to the northeast.
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