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Description: | Peter describes the hop farmer’s season and recalls with fondness the days when large numbers of hop-pickers from the West Midlands and South Wales descended on the area for hop-picking in September.
Claston Farm is within the parish of Dormington village. Dudley is a town in the West Midlands to the northeast of Claston. The Church Army is an evangelist movement within the established church founded by the Revd Wislon Carlile in 1882. The Red Cross was founded in Switzerland in 1863 as an organization concerned with the alleviation of human suffering. Blackstone refers to the internationally respected engineering works founded in 1837 by Robert Smith in Stamford, Lincolnshire (to the northeast of Claston) producing a range of internationally renowned engines and agricultural machinery.
lexis
bine = climbing stem of hop plant; cause = because; anthracite = non-bituminous coal
phonology
rhoticity
START [A`:]; PRICE [VI]; NURSE [@`:]; NORTH [O`:]; SQUARE [E@`]; BATH [A:]; STRUT [V]; lettER [@`]
note also year [j@`:], once [wVns] and one [wVn], (be)cause [bIkOz ~ k@z], particular [p@tIk=L/@`], policeman [pli:sm@n], here [hj@`], Sundays [sVndIz], perhaps [pr/aps] and Blackstone [blakst@n]
grammar
third person plural was (all the dead bines (…) was cut off) | 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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