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Description: | Joan describes the Lincoln of her childhood and recalls the games and community events she used to enjoy. Sheffield is a city in Yorkshire to the northwest of Lincoln and Tattershall a village to the southeast. Clayton & Shuttleworth Ltd., originally agricultural engineers became Clayton Dewandre Ltd., automobile engineers (now Smith Clayton Forge). Amongst other things they were famous for building aircraft at the Titanic Works in Lincoln, including from 1916 onwards the Hanley Page: a bomber designed by Frederic Handley Page for the RAF (Royal Air Force).
lexis
again = against; dray = low cart without sides used for carrying heavy loads
phonology
PRICE [a:I]; GOAT [@u]; BATH [a]; STRUT [U]; happY [I ~ i]; kissEZ [@z]
® [dI]
note also us [@z ~ Uz], our [a: ~ A:], few [fu:], always [O:lw@z], important [ImpO:?@nt], nothing [nUTIN], during [du:r/In], took [t}:k ~ tUk], because [bIk@s ~ bIkUs], once [wUns ~ wQns] and popular [pQp@l@]
grammar
there was + plural complement (there was very few events; there was three farms on the other side of the railway; there was all sorts of activities; there was hundreds of children took part)
transitive belong (a friend who belonged the little Congregational chapel)
note the construction I should say they’d like to have it back now = I would say they’d like to have it back now | 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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