Survey of English Dialects
Sixpenny Handley, Dorset
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Type
sound
Duration
00:04:00
Cultures
English
Shelf mark
C908/68
Recording date
1956
Recording locations
Sixpenny Handley, Dorset: OS Grid Reference(399500,117500)
Producers
University of Leeds
Recordist
Ellis, Stanley (b.1926
Speakers
Thorne, Charlie (b.1878, male, retired farm worker & woodman)
Description
Charlie describes how to build a stack and tells a couple of anecdotes about poaching. He also briefly mentions threshing by hand. The original recording appears to have been paused on two occasions. Salisbury is a city to the northeast of Sixpenny Handley.
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