The Suffolk accent I remember a few years ago that there was some discussion on this list about the Suffolk accent (of which Patricia Bridges has an uncanny knack for writing the sounds in words!). I stumbled across the following British Library link with on-line, free access, to “Archival Sound Recordings”. http://sounds.bl.uk/TextPage.aspx?page=backgroundGeorge Ewart Evans collection Of interest is the following: 250 recordings of interviews and songs made by oral history pioneer George Ewart Evans between 1956 and 1977, many in Suffolk, with a smaller number in Wales, Ireland and Scotland. The recordings document rural life and agricultural work in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, folk beliefs about animals, medicine and witchcraft, folk and popular songs. Writer and oral historian George Ewart Evans (1909-1988) is widely regarded as the 'grandfather' of British oral history, although he always said that the term 'oral history' reminded him of 'the filing cabinet of a well-equipped dentist'. His preference was for 'spoken history', the title of the last of a series of books based on recorded reminiscences published between 1956 and 1987. >From this page, click the link: “Return to the George Ewart Evans collection collection” for the full selection of the interviews. On the left side of the page is a link to “Accents and Dialects” - you can browse by county (Suffolk of course) - some fascinating recordings of Suffolk life… My Christmas present to you all - Enjoy David Kindred (In China where Christmas ain’t)
*blushing* Good to hear from you David :-) I hope that you might be able to have a look at an exciting web site that a friend is producing. He is a radio producer and a good owd Suffolk bor. If you go to the following http://www.suffolkdialect.co.uk/maptest.html you will find a map of Suffolk, Norfolk and Essex which is dotted with little people, move the map to the area you wish to hear and click on the little person. For example if you click on the little chap close to Holton St Mary you will hear a lovely owd bor chatting away. This is a pilot site and there are many more voices to be added, but as a little Christmas treat, go and have a listen - for a real treat go to the little chap who seems to be in the middle of nowhere between the roads B1078 and the A12 and listen to 'Suffolk treasure' Peggy Cole talking about when she was asked by Sir Peter Hall to be in his Suffolk film of 'Akenfield'. Nick is also producing CDs of the Suffolk dialect/accent, if anyone is interested email me off list at patrica@bridgessuffolk.plus.com and I can let you have details. There is no huge profit being made, this is purely a side line because Nick recognises the importance of preserving the local accent/dialect. He kindly gave a talk to Suffolk Local History Council's Local History Recorders in October and many are now following advice and information he gave and are looking into making 2011 a year for making Oral History Recordings. Pat ... ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Kindred" <kindred_david@hotmail.com> To: <suffolk@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, December 18, 2010 1:28 AM Subject: [SFK-UK] The Suffolk accent The Suffolk accent I remember a few years ago that there was some discussion on this list about the Suffolk accent (of which Patricia Bridges has an uncanny knack for writing the sounds in words!). I stumbled across the following British Library link with on-line, free access, to “Archival Sound Recordings”. http://sounds.bl.uk/TextPage.aspx?page=backgroundGeorge Ewart Evans collection Of interest is the following: 250 recordings of interviews and songs made by oral history pioneer George Ewart Evans between 1956 and 1977, many in Suffolk, with a smaller number in Wales, Ireland and Scotland. The recordings document rural life and agricultural work in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, folk beliefs about animals, medicine and witchcraft, folk and popular songs. Writer and oral historian George Ewart Evans (1909-1988) is widely regarded as the 'grandfather' of British oral history, although he always said that the term 'oral history' reminded him of 'the filing cabinet of a well-equipped dentist'. His preference was for 'spoken history', the title of the last of a series of books based on recorded reminiscences published between 1956 and 1987. >From this page, click the link: “Return to the George Ewart Evans >collection collection” for the full selection of the interviews. On the left side of the page is a link to “Accents and Dialects” - you can browse by county (Suffolk of course) - some fascinating recordings of Suffolk life… My Christmas present to you all - Enjoy David Kindred (In China where Christmas ain’t) ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to SUFFOLK-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message
Cood blaarst Suffolk mawther, thas hully wunnerful! Memories of my granddad. Kevin -----Original Message----- From: suffolk-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:suffolk-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Patricia Bridges Sent: 18 December 2010 11:28 To: suffolk@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [SFK-UK] The Suffolk accent *blushing* Good to hear from you David :-) I hope that you might be able to have a look at an exciting web site that a friend is producing. He is a radio producer and a good owd Suffolk bor. If you go to the following http://www.suffolkdialect.co.uk/maptest.html you will find a map of Suffolk, Norfolk and Essex which is dotted with little people, move the map to the area you wish to hear and click on the little person. For example if you click on the little chap close to Holton St Mary you will hear a lovely owd bor chatting away. This is a pilot site and there are many more voices to be added, but as a little Christmas treat, go and have a listen - for a real treat go to the little chap who seems to be in the middle of nowhere between the roads B1078 and the A12 and listen to 'Suffolk treasure' Peggy Cole talking about when she was asked by Sir Peter Hall to be in his Suffolk film of 'Akenfield'. Nick is also producing CDs of the Suffolk dialect/accent, if anyone is interested email me off list at patrica@bridgessuffolk.plus.com and I can let you have details. There is no huge profit being made, this is purely a side line because Nick recognises the importance of preserving the local accent/dialect. He kindly gave a talk to Suffolk Local History Council's Local History Recorders in October and many are now following advice and information he gave and are looking into making 2011 a year for making Oral History Recordings. Pat ... ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Kindred" <kindred_david@hotmail.com> To: <suffolk@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, December 18, 2010 1:28 AM Subject: [SFK-UK] The Suffolk accent The Suffolk accent I remember a few years ago that there was some discussion on this list about the Suffolk accent (of which Patricia Bridges has an uncanny knack for writing the sounds in words!). I stumbled across the following British Library link with on-line, free access, to "Archival Sound Recordings". http://sounds.bl.uk/TextPage.aspx?page=backgroundGeorge Ewart Evans collection Of interest is the following: 250 recordings of interviews and songs made by oral history pioneer George Ewart Evans between 1956 and 1977, many in Suffolk, with a smaller number in Wales, Ireland and Scotland. The recordings document rural life and agricultural work in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, folk beliefs about animals, medicine and witchcraft, folk and popular songs. Writer and oral historian George Ewart Evans (1909-1988) is widely regarded as the 'grandfather' of British oral history, although he always said that the term 'oral history' reminded him of 'the filing cabinet of a well-equipped dentist'. His preference was for 'spoken history', the title of the last of a series of books based on recorded reminiscences published between 1956 and 1987. >From this page, click the link: "Return to the George Ewart Evans >collection collection" for the full selection of the interviews. On the left side of the page is a link to "Accents and Dialects" - you can browse by county (Suffolk of course) - some fascinating recordings of Suffolk life. My Christmas present to you all - Enjoy David Kindred (In China where Christmas ain't) ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to SUFFOLK-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to SUFFOLK-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message
Hi Pat:: Thanks for that map website; I was able to look at the closeness of Lawrence family background communities of Shropham, Thompson, Merton, Wretham etc in Norfolk. Merry Christmas. Cheers. Jim Lawrence -----Original Message----- From: Patricia Bridges [mailto:patricia@bridgessuffolk.plus.com] Sent: Saturday, December 18, 2010 3:28 AM To: suffolk@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [SFK-UK] The Suffolk accent *blushing* Good to hear from you David :-) I hope that you might be able to have a look at an exciting web site that a friend is producing. He is a radio producer and a good owd Suffolk bor. If you go to the following http://www.suffolkdialect.co.uk/maptest.html you will find a map of Suffolk, Norfolk and Essex which is dotted with little people, move the map to the area you wish to hear and click on the little person. For example if you click on the little chap close to Holton St Mary you will hear a lovely owd bor chatting away. This is a pilot site and there are many more voices to be added, but as a little Christmas treat, go and have a listen - for a real treat go to the little chap who seems to be in the middle of nowhere between the roads B1078 and the A12 and listen to 'Suffolk treasure' Peggy Cole talking about when she was asked by Sir Peter Hall to be in his Suffolk film of 'Akenfield'. Nick is also producing CDs of the Suffolk dialect/accent, if anyone is interested email me off list at patrica@bridgessuffolk.plus.com and I can let you have details. There is no huge profit being made, this is purely a side line because Nick recognises the importance of preserving the local accent/dialect. He kindly gave a talk to Suffolk Local History Council's Local History Recorders in October and many are now following advice and information he gave and are looking into making 2011 a year for making Oral History Recordings. Pat ... ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Kindred" <kindred_david@hotmail.com> To: <suffolk@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, December 18, 2010 1:28 AM Subject: [SFK-UK] The Suffolk accent The Suffolk accent I remember a few years ago that there was some discussion on this list about the Suffolk accent (of which Patricia Bridges has an uncanny knack for writing the sounds in words!). I stumbled across the following British Library link with on-line, free access, to "Archival Sound Recordings". http://sounds.bl.uk/TextPage.aspx?page=backgroundGeorge Ewart Evans collection Of interest is the following: 250 recordings of interviews and songs made by oral history pioneer George Ewart Evans between 1956 and 1977, many in Suffolk, with a smaller number in Wales, Ireland and Scotland. The recordings document rural life and agricultural work in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, folk beliefs about animals, medicine and witchcraft, folk and popular songs. Writer and oral historian George Ewart Evans (1909-1988) is widely regarded as the 'grandfather' of British oral history, although he always said that the term 'oral history' reminded him of 'the filing cabinet of a well-equipped dentist'. His preference was for 'spoken history', the title of the last of a series of books based on recorded reminiscences published between 1956 and 1987. >From this page, click the link: "Return to the George Ewart Evans >collection collection" for the full selection of the interviews. On the left side of the page is a link to "Accents and Dialects" - you can browse by county (Suffolk of course) - some fascinating recordings of Suffolk life. My Christmas present to you all - Enjoy David Kindred (In China where Christmas ain't) ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to SUFFOLK-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message
----- Original Message ----- From: "David Kindred" <kindred_david@hotmail.com> To: <suffolk@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, December 18, 2010 12:28 PM Subject: [SFK-UK] The Suffolk accent The Suffolk accent Christmas greetings to all from Down Under. In 1981, when I really wasn't "into" family history, my husband and I visited the graveyard at St Mary's, Parham where my grandparents ( George and Fanny MEADOWS) were buried. I was delighted to locate their grave. While we were ther we struck up a conversation with an elderly gentleman who was cutting the grass and I identified myself. He said " I knew old George Medders, he were a big man, about 8 foot tarl". Well, yes, it seems that he was a big man, my Dad was 6ft. 3 ins. Wish that I had asked more...... Margery