Voices From The Dales

Dialect pt.3: Hannah Metcalfe, Taylor Dinsdale

January 06, 2023 Andrew Fagg/Dales Countryside Museum Season 2 Episode 3
Dialect pt.3: Hannah Metcalfe, Taylor Dinsdale
Voices From The Dales
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Voices From The Dales
Dialect pt.3: Hannah Metcalfe, Taylor Dinsdale
Jan 06, 2023 Season 2 Episode 3
Andrew Fagg/Dales Countryside Museum

After a noisy introduction at Gayle Bridge, this episode opens with a little more of Rev James Alderson, including a short study of his 1980 Dales dialect primer.   Presenter Andrew Fagg then stands by the black-painted railings of Foss Head Farm house in the village of Gayle to cue in a 1977 recording of the late Hannah Metcalfe (nee Alderson).  The Metcalfe name and family is described.  The late Taylor Dinsdale, interviewed by Marie Hartley and Joan Ingilby, comes next.  Hear him speak about bynames in Gayle, as well as life before flushing toilets. Taylor Dinsdale is described by special guest Rob Ward.  Published on Friday 6 January 2023.

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After a noisy introduction at Gayle Bridge, this episode opens with a little more of Rev James Alderson, including a short study of his 1980 Dales dialect primer.   Presenter Andrew Fagg then stands by the black-painted railings of Foss Head Farm house in the village of Gayle to cue in a 1977 recording of the late Hannah Metcalfe (nee Alderson).  The Metcalfe name and family is described.  The late Taylor Dinsdale, interviewed by Marie Hartley and Joan Ingilby, comes next.  Hear him speak about bynames in Gayle, as well as life before flushing toilets. Taylor Dinsdale is described by special guest Rob Ward.  Published on Friday 6 January 2023.