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Description: | George remembers Sandbach in the 1930s and recalls the impact of the Second World War. He also outlines his sadness at the recent erosion of the town’s industrial heritage.
ERF (Edward Richard Foden) and Fodens are truck manufacturers and Jennings’s of Sandbach a manufacturing company. Rolls Royce is a motor and aeronautical engineering company. Conlowe’s Mill refers to a silk mill and Sifta to a company that produced salt. The Potteries refers to the six towns of Stoke on Trent. Elworth (to the northwest), Wheelock (to the south) and Ettiley Heath (to the west) are villages just outside Sandbach. Middlewich (to the northwest) and Crewe (to the southwest) are neighbouring towns. Mow Cop (to the southeast) is a rocky spur that forms the southernmost point of The Pennines. D-Day refers to 6 June 1944, the first day of Operation Overlord - the Allied invasion of western Europe during World War II.
lexis
Spitfire = fast, single-seater British World War II fighter plane; Hurricane = single-seater British World War II fighter plane; Flying Fortress = B-17 bomber, US World War II aircraft
phonology
+ V ® [4]; occasional H-dropping
PRICE [a:I]; START [a: > A:]; GOAT [OU]; STRUT [U]
® [}:k]; ® [di]
note also thing [TINg], pigs [p1gz], because [bIkQs ~ bIkQz] and years [jI:z]
grammar
third person plural was (on the commons was all those tanks and jeeps and stuff)
determiner, those ® them (in them days)
there was + plural complement (there was a lot of craftsmen and tradesmen) | 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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