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Description: | Sue describes her childhood in the 1950s and recalls visits to her grandparents in Coventry. Small Heath is an area of Birmingham to the southeast of the city centre and Coventry a city further to the southeast. The Birmingham and Midland Motor Omnibus Company (BMMO) was formed in 1904, incorporated into the nationalised West Midlands Passenger Transport Executive in the 1970s and subsequently privatised and broken up in the 1980s. Operating under the name Midland Red, a reference to the bright red livery of their coaches, BMMO was one of the most significant engineering bus companies in the history of British road transport.
lexis
pictures ~ picture house = cinema; cause = because; grandma = grandmother (term of endearment); granddad – grandfather (term of endearment); mom = mother (term of endearment)
phonology
GOAT [aU ~ AU]; FACE [ai ~ {i]; PRICE [Qi]; MOUTH [EU ~ {U]; FLEECE [@i]; STRUT [U]; BATH [a]; KIT [i]; lettER [a]; happY [@i]
® [Ng]; ® [dI]
note also (be)cause [bIkUz ~ k@z ~ kUs], so much [s@ mUtS], us [Us], Saturday [satdI], perhaps [p/raps], one [wQn], often [Qft@n] and Birmingham [b@:mINg@m]
grammar
of + general time phrase (we used to go to town quite a lot of a weekend; there was a picture house facing the road that we lived in that we used to go to of a Saturday morning especially; it was sixpence of a Saturday morning; I can remember my parents taking us to the cinema of an evening)
there is + plural complement (there’s so many dangers about) | 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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