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Description: | Frank talks about pasturing and mining rights in the Forest of Dean. He recalls miners' demonstrations and describes the lack of welfare and how families overcame economic hardship. Woolaston (to the southwest of Bream), St Briavels (just to the southwest) and Yorkley (just to the east) are nearby villages and Cinderford a town to the northeast. Richard Stafford Cripps (1899-1952) was a prominent member of the political left wing in Britain in the 1930s and subsequently served in the post-war Labour government. The Speech House was built in Coleford (just to the north of Bream) in1676. It originally served as a hunting lodge for Charles II, but soon became the administrative centre for the Forest of Dean. It is now a conference centre and luxury hotel and the Verderer’s Court is still held there every forty days when matters concerning the forest are discussed.
lexis
gala = festival, procession; ah = yes; royalty = payment made by a producer of minerals to owner of rights over it; along of = with
phonology
H-dropping; rhoticity; + V ® [d]
MOUTH [@u]; FACE [e:I]; GOAT [o:U]; PRICE [@I]; CHOICE [QI]; SQUARE [E@`]; START [A`:]; NURSE [@`:]; NORTH [O`:]; BATH [a:]; LOT [A ~ Q]; STRUT [V]; lettER [@`]
note also gala [ge:Il@], Saturday [sad@`di], one [wVn] and none [nVn], here [I@’], maybe [m{Ibi], potatOES [p@te:It@z], because [bIkOz] and father [f{:D@`]
grammar
third person plural subject pronoun ® them (it’s what them do call Crown Land; but you must be borned in what them do call the Hundred of St Briavels; they get what them call the miner’s demonstration; feast as them do call it)
periphrastic do (it do all belong to the Crown; Bledisloe do claim all the coal and all the minerals; but you must be borned in what them do call the Hundred of St Briavels; they do allow you to go and pick up all the dry wood and that; when they did get their gala day; they did all meet; the bands did start; they did all finish up at Speech House; they did have these big men there; we did get some big men there; feast as them do call it; free miners’ rights they did call it; that’s what they did feed their families on)
past participle borned (you must be borned in what them do call the Hundred of St Briavels; if you was a free miner that was borned in the Hundred of St Briavel)
relative pronoun ® as (they do allow you to go and pick up all the dry wood and that as have falled down)
past participle falled (all the dry wood and that as have falled down)
preterite knowed (never knowed anything about it)
second person was (if you was a free miner)
preterite drawed (I never drawed it, mind)
there was + plural complement (there was rough times then, mind)
of + pronoun ® on (there was a lot on them had to bring their families up on their garden them times)
determiner, those ® them (them times)
preterite seed (you seed their pigs and all that)
complementiser, that ® as (I don’t think as I should go to anything else; I could’ve went anywhere as I wanted to)
past participle went (I needn’t to have went; I could’ve went anywhere as I wanted to)
note use and phonetic quality of utterance final discourse markers see [si:] and mind [m@Ind]. Note also the construction I don’t think as I should go to anything else = I don’t think that I would go to anything else. | License: | http://www.bl.uk/services/copy/permission.html | Rights holder: | British Library | Source: | Collect Britain | Creator: | University of Leeds | Identifier: | http://www.collectbritain.co.uk/personal... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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