Survey of English Dialects

Sixpenny Handley, Dorset

  • Add a note
    Log in to add a note at the bottom of this page.
  • All notes
  • My notes
  • Hide notes
Please click to leave a note

The British Library Board acknowledges the intellectual property rights of those named as contributors to this recording and the rights of those not identified.
Legal and ethical usage »

Tags (top 25):
(No tags found for this item)

What is this? Log in to add a term that describes this item and help make it easier to find.

  • 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.

  • Texts

    Linguistic description of this item

  • Metadata record:

    View full metadata for this item