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Description: | Bob describes Harwich as he remembers it in the 1950s and recalls the experience of travelling on passenger ferries at that time. From 31 January to 1 February 1953, a North Sea storm surge devastated coastal areas of the UK and the Netherlands. Bath Side is the area on the northeastern tip of Harwich, Dovercourt the area to the east, Upper Dovercourt the area to the south and Parkeston is the site of the international ferry terminal in the north. Liverpool Street Station is a mainline station in London. Trinity House refers to the General Lighthouse Authority for England, Wales and the Channel Islands. It provides navigational aids ranging from lighthouses, buoys and beacons to the latest satellite based differential global positioning service as well as a fleet of vessels, now only operating out of Harwich and Swansea.
lexis
surge = large, heavy, or violent wave or high rolling swell of water; lay-in = lie-in
phonology
T-glottaling; glottal reinforcement of /p/ (operating [Q?p@r/{I?tIN]) and of /t/ (1953 [nAIn?t@i:nfIftITr/@i:], Trinity [tr/In@?ti], British [br/I?tIS ~ br/I?IS], operating [Q?p@r/{I?tIN], waiter [w{I?t@], twenty [twEn?ti], counter [k{Un?t@] and frontED [fr/@n?t@d]); frequent L-vocalisation
FACE [{I]; MOUTH [{U]; FLEECE [@i:]; PRICE [AI]; TRAP [{]; STRUT [@ ~ a]; kissES [@z]
note also Harwich [h{r/IdZ], pretty [pr/Idi], water [wO:d@], probably [pr/Qb@li], Dewsbury [du:zbr/i], knew [nu:] and servICE [s@:v@s]
grammar
zero plural marker on noun (nineteen foot of water)
there was + plural complement (there was six men operating each one of them)
third person plural was (you always knew who the car owners was)
preterite come (they come in by train mostly)
preterite done (in the latter days when they done away with the actual troop ships) | License: | http://www.bl.uk/services/copy/permission.html | Rights holder: | British Library | Source: | Collect Britain | Creator: | BBC | Identifier: | http://www.collectbritain.co.uk/personal... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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