right

T L S stroke G three two three

ta ehm well start at the beginning could you tell us first of all where you were born please

eh Sunderland Roker in Sunderland

yes yes and eh whereabouts else have you lived since then you know

nowhere but Gateshead

aye do you always here in Gateshead or

yes

in this house

oh not in this house no I've been in various houses I've been in this one about well since I nineteen thirty five

yes yes eh how did the two places compare as you know as places to live in what eh

well I prefer this one because the front is private and it's pleasant you know

yes yes it's very odd living (unclear)

it's well I think it's the (pause) one of the nicest streets in Gateshead if it was eh developed you know

yeah yeah

had if they developed the street and made it eh well better to look at

yes yes because nobody seems to know about it you know I mean I was (unclear)

well there isn't if anyone is looking for it they have an awful job to find it because nobody knows about it

yes it just doesn't look like a street at all (unclear)

no there's no other Claremont Streets and no eh South Avenues North Avenues Claremont Place you know

yeah eh do you find the eh you know the the neighbours round here fairly friendly

yes they're reasonably friendly they don't believe in going to each other's houses

mm

things like that but eh if you needed help they would help you

yes ehm eh would you say that eh that you were fairly attached to well Gateshead as a place to live you know do you think you would ever live

yes eh no I think I'd rather live in Gateshead I I I'm not fussy about anywhere else I don't think (interruption)

even though you weren't born here

uh-huh eh well actually I haven't been to Sunderland since I was (unclear)

oh I see yes

I haven't been back since (unclear)

yeah so this was the place you grew up so (unclear)

yes

what about eh Tyneside compared with the rest of the country you know do you think you would ever want to move away from Tyneside

no no I've been to various parts I've been quite a lot to Staffordshire and to Wales and I find that the people aren't as friendly as they are here

mm yes nearly everybody agrees (unclear) if you bring people from other places

yes all the north is friendly

yes (pause) eh whereabouts were your parents born

my mother was born in Cockermouth and eh my father was born in Heddon

yes Heddon on the Wall ehm and eh what was your father's occupation

eh he was an engineer

what what exactly did he do

well he was in now you know the (unclear) on eh Lobley Hill Road

oh Dunston yes

uh-huh he used to work there that was his last job but eh in the nineteen twenties he invented a a (unclear) needle and eh he gave his job up and made the (unclear) needles (interruption) and he patented it and make quite a decent living out of it

yeah that's very good yeah ehm just to finish up on the facts could you tell us eh which age group you come into on that card please (pause) if you could just say the letter

eh E

thanks it's the polite way of asking people their age and and on what basis you occupy this house again if you could just say

yes I own it

it's A is it

A

ta eh is eh your husband from Tyneside as well

I'm not married

oh I see sorry just a mistake

(laughter) (unclear) (laughter)

yeah yeah ehm eh now you you do work at the moment don't you

yes I work for Gateshead school meals

oh I see yes whereabouts

eh the King Edward school kitchen I'm in charge of the the kitchen I cook eh four hundred and fifty meals a day

yes big job

well it's rather hectic (laughter) during the time you know

what sort of hours do you work school hours

eh no I go in well my starting time is seven o'clock until half past three but I'm usually there around half past six to get the the meat (unclear) you know get the meat prepared and started

ehm is it a is it a good job you know do you enjoy it

I enjoy it a as I say it gets hectic and you you're like packing it in like every other job but eh I'm quite happy in it and it's interesting

yeah yes

and eh I like working with the children you know

yeah yeah

they're always making a fuss of you (unclear)

yeah yeah

you know (laughter)

ehm what eh w what other jobs have you done in your life you know what did you do when you first left school

eh I was shop assistant I worked at Binn's (interruption) then I gave it up and I was at home for about ten years and then I got this job

yeah I see yes ehm eh how old were you when you left school please

eh fourteen

yeah eh do you think you were glad to leave school at the time or not

oh yes I think every child does (interruption) they all think it's grand to leave school but it's far better to stop on (interruption) personally I know now

yeah yes yes you've changed your opinion (unclear)

I went to the Central school and I should have stayed on till I was sixteen but of course in those days money was scarce (interruption) and parents were only too pleased to get you away from school to earn some money to help the house

yes yes it's an all too common story

I may have stopped on personally myself but my mother wanted me to leave

mm-hm yes mm eh would you say that you know looking back on your edu on your education would you say it had been worth very much to you in your life since

it would have been had I stayed until I was sixteen but it was a central school and looking back on it I always think that well for the two years I was or the three years I was there eh you sort of went back over what you'd learnt at the elementary school plus a little bit more and just when I was going to learn something I left I was on the point of learning shorthand and cooking you know and going further into French and other languages but eh as I say I left at that point (laughter)

yes what about eh you know outside your job do you feel that it's been very useful to you just in your own life personally

well the mathematics help me now because I have a lot of book work to do as I eh quite a lot of book work to do and the supervising of the kitchen you know and the mathematics do help me there (interruption) the coo the cooking well naturally I've picked up as I've gone along (unclear) at school

yeah ehm do you think that ehm that eduation is very important for children nowadays you know (interruption)

I think it's most important for both boys and girls eh girls a lot of parents think well oh education is a waste of time for girls (interruption) but I don't agree because you don't know what is in store for the the girl you don't know that she can't be left on her own she may marry be left a widow and she will need her education just the same

yes lots of people do ehm do you think that eh schools have changed very much since you went to school you know (interruption) in what kind of (interruption)

(interruption) oh yes (interruption) much less strict much less

yeah yeah (pause) do you think this is a change for the better or for the worse (unclear)

the worse I think because eh (pause) children just don't what have that respect for teachers they don't have respect for policemen and I think that is what is causing all the chaos in the world today

yeah yes do you think children are really worse behaved today than they were you know when you were young

I think there's a bigger percentage there are quite a lot of quite good one good children you know the same as what we were but I think that there are a greater percentage of wild of wildness or you know

yeah yes ehm (pause) ehm whereabouts were you living when you were fairly young you know when you were under twelve say

eh up in Bewick Road

yeah yeah did you think that ehm that it was a good place to live you know from your point of view as a child then

oh yes yes I thought it was quite a nice place it was a nice place then well it still is

yeah do you remember any of the ehm like games you used to play or things you used to do as a child

oh (pause) hop scotch (interruption) uh (pause) skipping (pause) eh kicking a tin (interruption) (pause) ehm (pause) statues (interruption) (pause) eh

yes yes (laughter) yes takes you back doesn't it (laughter)

(laughter) you are taking me back a long way (unclear) (laughter)

(laughter) ehm do you remember what you used to call eh a game where one of the one of the kids has to chase the others to try and touch them

ah yes tiggy

yes and what did you used to say eh about the one who had to chase you know if it wa if it was his turn to chase the others he was

mm now you've got me oh 'you're on' (interruption) ye yes 'you're on' (laughter)

yes eh and ehm did you have like a truce word that you used to say to call a halt in the game you know if you wanted to

allie allie allie

oh yes allie ooken

allie ooken (laughter)

and ehm what did you used to call eh you know the things that lads flick along the ground

are they marbles

yeah did you used to have another word for them

eh yes we had I can't think what it was oh moggies

yes moggies

moggies

yes

it's been a long long time since I've used that

(unclear) (laughter) I used to call them liggies myself

liggies

eh still on the matter of what words you use for things could you tell us ehm what you call each of the rooms of this house you know just what your normal word is for each room

ah (pause) well now on my own I just call it the front room the back room and the kitchen but when we had the family this was the sitting room the back room was the dining room mm but I've combined the living room and sitting room all together (interruption) through being on my own

yes eh and eh you know to get out of like an old fashioned back door you have to lift the (pause) what do you call that

the sneck (laughter)

yes and again if you've got a a a coal fire what do you call the thing you put in front of it to get it going

(unclear) you mean

no if you've got like a sheet of tin that you put in front of it to get it (interruption) going

oh the blazer

yes ta

(laughter)

and what do you call eh cleaning the plates and things after a meal

ehm

eh could you tell us please just eh how you like to spend your spare time you know your evenings and so on kind of things do you like to do

well right now just sit and watch the television (laughter) (interruption) because after after a busy day at work I I'm really not well I I I'm fifty five I'm fifty six this year (interruption) and after a hard day's work all I want to do is sit

yes yes yes this is it yes

I'm interested in the garden I like going in the garden and I like looking after it but eh that is usually done at the weekend

yes do you just have flowers in garden or do you have vegetables (interruption) as well

no just the flowers I used to have the allotment across the road (interruption) and I had hens and veg (interruption) I had every veg you could think of and about eh thirty six hens

mm yeah mm yeah very handy (laughter)

it was it was very good

yeah now eh do you think that there are any ehm you know sort of things that you would like to have done but that you've never got round to or you've never had the chance to do in the way of any sort of recreation activities you know what I mean

I would like to have travelled a lot (interruption) and I haven't had the opportunity but I'm taking it this year I'm going to Norway (interruption) so I I at least I'm making the opportunity (interruption) this time

yeah aye lovely mm yes mm-hm yes do you think you would travel a lot you know I mean say if you won the pools or something (interruption) tomorrow (unclear)

I definitely would I enjoy being by sea not planes

not air too hurried for you (laughter)

yes uh-huh I always say I was born a century too late I should have been born in the Victorian century when you just you're your time (interruption) take a trot along

that's right yeah yeah yeah yeah ehm eh you watch television quite a lot these days

oh mm

what what kinds of things do you like to watch (unclear)

I prefer films news and the films (pause) after that I'll not eh (pause) I like The Black And White Minstrel Show ah (pause) quizzes what else (laughter)

is the is the television sort of you know usually on most of the time or do you just put it on when you want to watch something

eh now on most of the time (pause) as I say if I'm watching the television I'm not getting up and doing this and doing that and doing the other thing if the television isn't on then I'm getting up and doing different things and I'm too tired of doing and I feel worn out (laughter)

yes yes yes work definitely has that effect on your life

(laughter)

these are just eh just a few questions about your opinions on well some ordinary matters eh what do you think that eh parents should do when their children misbehave you know how do you think they should they should check ehm

well I think that they should be deprived of something I don't believe in corporal punishment deprive them of something that which they really want rather let them see that they have to do without something (interruption) as a punishment

yes yeah but yeah but never actually hit them

no I don't believe in corporal punishment the smack smack across the legs yes or a smack across the (unclear) other than that no

yeah yeah ehm and what about you know a young person of say sixteen or so what sort of control do you think that parents should have over them

well these days I don't think they have very much I think by the time a boy or a girl of sixteen they know their own mind and they're going to do it and the more opposition they get put in their way the more intent they are on doing it I think it pays in that case to say well you're making your bed and you've got to lie in it

mm yes yeah do you think you would want to sort of ehm control things like what time they came in at night (unclear)

not at sixteen or seventeen I don't think you could these days they're too too matured and I think i if you put your foot down and said now you must be in at a certain time they would just go out of their way not to be in at a certain time (laughter)

yeah yeah ehm going on to something different and this is ehm a question that you don't have to answer if you don't want because some people some people don't ehm which way do you vote

Conservative

yeah ehm have you always voted the same way

mm

do you why do you think it is that you always vote in that way you know

well (pause) mainly uh taking a a Labour government a Labour council well take a Labour council as a whole eh most of the Labour councillors which of whom I've met to me appear (pause) ignorant and arrogant (interruption) they're going to rule the place and (unclear)

yeah yeah I suppose Gateshead's never anything else but a Labour (unclear) ehm

and I think they're spending far too much of the the (pause) rate payer's money

yeah

we're the we are one of the highest rated places in ga in (pause) England I think we're about fourth of fifth and they're pulling some new houses down instead of pulling a few down and rebuilding there's derelict houses all over Gateshead

yes that's true yeah

derelict buildings derelict sites and eh by the time they get round to building on them it will be ten twenty years' time

yes yes they're not really building in the centre of the town at all are they eh all the building goes on at the edges (unclear)

outside the town (unclear)

yeah do you eh do you normally vote you know in every election like even in local government elections as well

eh yes yes

eh (pause) what do you think about eh you know the present government do you think they're making a reasonable job of running the country

well I think they're making as good a job as as is possible eh when Mr Wilson was in power we appeared to be as at a standstill now something is being done whether it is for the better or for the worse I don't know but there is something there's a move

yes

and well time alone will tell whether it's good or bad

yes yes ehm do you think what do you think about the Common Market business do you think (unclear)

well I think that pe the ordinary working person doesn't know enough about it to really give a straight opinion but if it is going to mean rising costs and so forth then they'll have to look after the older people better than they're doing now anyone on a fixed income will have to be really looked after because the present day pension would be no good to anyone (unclear)

yes it's hard enough as it is really isn't it mm

and how they'll stop well they they they won't be able to stop wage rise if we enter the Common Market because the wages will have to rise with the prices

eh if we could go on to talk for a bit about the thing we are most interested in you know that the way you speak and so on eh firstly do you think that eh you ever change the way you talk according to you know the person you're talking to or any other circumstances

well I was never allowed to talk Tyneside

yeah

eh while I was a child but ehm I now have a Tyneside accent and I'm I'm not ashamed of it I'm quite pleased with it but if I was eh talking maybe at work and they were talking broad Tyneside then I may break into it (pause) a little bit

yeah yes you would tend to be

mm-hm

and what eh what would you say about the way you're talking now do you th is this fairly normal way of talking do you say (unclear)

it's normal this is my normal talk when I talk Tyneside it's abnormal

it's a special case yes yes

(laughter) yes

mm do you think eh on a fairly long term basis as well that you always talk the same or (interruption) do you you know

yes yes I've always talked exactly the same

ehm do you think on the whole that you like to hear people talking in Tyneside accents you know do you do you approve of them you know

now that is a it's a difficult question I like to hear (pause) ah (pause) a Tyneside say comedian on television (pause) ah (pause) I like to hear Tyneside sung but I don't think eh it sounds nice among outside (interruption) (unclear) the broad Tyneside I don't think it it is t too good I don't mind a slight accent but eh broad Tyneside no I don't like it (interruption)

(interruption) (unclear) (interruption) yeah yes do you think you would for instance eh correct a child for instance for talking very local (interruption) yes ehm

yes

e eh you know ehm mm you know the way the way the newsreaders speak on television when they read out the news you know do you consider that a particularly correct way to talk do you think

yes it's more or less what I call King's English they don't have an accent mainly you know

yeah do you think that people should eh imitate that way of speech you know do you think it would be a good idea if everybody talked like that

no I don't see why y you can't keep your own little accent when I go down to Staffordshire they call me Geordie

aye

so I must have a Tyneside accent

yes it's it's surprising how you know (interruption) (unclear)

it's always there you can't get rid of it and I'm quite proud to be a Geordie (laughter)

yeah (laughter) ehm you don't you you don't consider your own voice to be a a a BBC sort of voice I mean (unclear) (interruption) can very readily tell the difference (interruption) (unclear)

(interruption) oh no (interruption) oh yes definitely I w I would think so because I I mean I well a a you get the 'a' which is Tyneside instead of the 'I' (laughter)

yes right eh what eh what sort of an accent would you say that I've got from listening to us (pause) now

you've got Tyneside accent

yeah more so than yours

no I wouldn't say 'more so'

more or less the same

just about r you're reasonably the same (interruption) we talk it's reasonable what shall we say we talk King's English with a slight accent

yeah mm

(laughter)

never really considered myself a real speaker of King's English

do you not think that we plai we speak plain English with an accent

eh ah yes I would have said that I was probably a bit more localized than you (unclear)

I don't think so maybe on the tape if I heard the two of us on the tape I don't know (laughter)

ehm what ehm this might strike you as a rather vague sort of question but ehm what kinds of things do you think you can tell about somebody from the way he talks you know eh do you ever guess things about people

well I think you can get an arroga guess an arrogant person from their speech

yes I was thinking about you know just his pronunciation you know what I mean

ah just the pronunciation I wouldn't condemn anybody for pronunciation ehm anyone who's talking Tyne broad Tyneside I wouldn't condemn them but I'd think well they have been to school and they've been taught English and they should be able to speak English

yeah yes do you think w would you normally say that if they spoke very broad Tyneside they were likely to be working class you know

yes yes

but do you think you could tell on those sort of grounds you know the difference between somebody who works in a factory and somebody who works in an office or something

yes I think you would yes

mm eh mm anyway eh do you think could you just read that list of words for me please eh just straight down and fairly quickly

ah now this is a catch isn't it (interruption) I'm not (unclear)

not particularly

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ta eh now eh now I'm going to read out list of words and for each one I would just like to know they're all fairly local words you know I would just like to know firstly if you're eh familiar with the word and secondly if you actually use it yourself eh bairn little bairn

bairn yeah

yes ehm bait

eh well my peop family used it but I wouldn't I haven't I haven't used it either

uh-huh perhaps you haven't had occasion to

I haven't had occasion to

(laughter) eh bonny

yes

eh bray

bray

mm to hit you know

no

no eh bullets

yes I used to say bullets when I was a k child (laughter)

yes uh-huh eh clamming

coming

no clamming

clumming no I've never heard that

for 'hungry' no

clamming clamming

clamming yes yes do you use it I mean you obviously know it now but

well I may use it occasionally yes

yes ehm boody

ah boody that is pots (interruption) uh boody (unclear) but I don't use that (interruption) no I have heard it I have

yes you don't use it no yes eh cree

cree pigeon cree

yes do you think you would use it

yes yes

ehm fettle

mm (pause) good fettle or a bad fettle I have used it

yeah what about 'to fettle something' you know fettle (unclear)

oh to mend it you mean

yes mm-hm

I've heard it used and I know what it means if someone said I'll fettle it for you I wouldn't know what it meant

eh gully

gully knife

yes

like a bread knife

yes would you use it

no I wouldn't use it it isn't a it isn't a word I use

yeah howk

no I wouldn't use it

but you know what it (interruption) means

I know what it means howk (interruption) (laughter)

yes mense be more to your mense to get some work done or something

no

no have you ever heard it

mense

yes

no I've never heard it (laughter)

no (laughter) favourite expression of my mother's (laughter) uh-huh

oh I've never heard it (laughter)

parky

parky yes I've heard that someone who is fussy about their their food

that's right but didn't get school dinners (laughter)

don't you dare call school dinners

(laughter) yeah

but school dinners are the Ritz now didn't you know

really oh yes well you would have to be parky not to like them (unclear) yeah eh varnigh

varnigh

mm (unclear) have you ever heard it for 'nearly' you know 'varnigh missed the bus' or something like that

(laughter)

what about 'knooled' 'to be knooled'

yes I've I've I've y I have used that you're ehm

kept down or (interruption) yes hen pecked or something

oh yes (unclear) yes yes

eh and eh now more or less on the same lines but sort of going grammatical as it were ehm I'm going to read out a list of sentences ehm and for each one I would just like to know eh whether it sounds like a perfectly normal sentence to you you know that is whether it sounds like something that you might say if the circumstances arose you know eh they're all sort of bits of localized grammar (unclear) eh 'were you wakened last night when I came in'

eh yes

yes eh 'I was still a bed when you called this morning'

I've heard it said but I haven't I wouldn't say it

ehm 'he never gave me any'

eh yes I've heard that quite a lot

do you ever say it

no

no eh 'do you not go there very often'

eh no that's bad grammar again isn't it (laughter)

uh yes I I I'm not quite sure about the status of those they certainly are ehm

I would say it was bad grammar

would you something like don't you go there very often'

mm

yeah mm eh eh 'they're useless them'

well I I have said it it's bad grammar though (laughter) it sounds like it

Tyneside grammar

Tyneside grammar

'I might could manage it'

well I wouldn't say it but I've heard it a lot

yeah yes eh ehm you know my cousin that her husband died'

that's a favourite Tyneside expression

yes (unclear) interesting way of forming a relative d do do you think you never use it

no I don't think so

no

I don't think I would

yeah ehm eh with the wife being ill I had to stay in and look after her

that's another favourite Tyneside expression

yeah do you say things like that with it you know with it being a sunny day (pause) you know what I mean (unclear)

eh no no if say it was my mother I'd say well I'm sorry my mother was ill and I couldn't get out

yeah yeah uh uh I'm going to stay with the son for the holidays

eh no i in that case I would say I'd I'm staying with my son for the holidays or my sister for the holidays

yeah yeah ehm 'they go to the pictures of a Sunday'

well that is typically Gateshead

yeah do you think you would say it or do you say 'on a Sunday'

no 'on a Sunday' (laughter)

yeah ehm eh here she had left her pram standing outside the shop'

no

no ehm 'I think we're going to be soon for the pictures'

that's typical

do you think you'd say it

yes I could

yeah yeah eh eh would you mind stop talking

well at work I say will you not shut up (laughter)

(laughter) yeah yes eh

when I'm trying to do the books and they wont be quiet (laughter)

yeah eh what about eh 'do you want a cup of tea making'

no I just usually say would you like tea'

yes (pause) yeah eh 'you know him that used to work on the railways'

yes I've said that before

yeah yeah ehm 'he happened a nasty accident'

no I I think I would say 'he had an accident' nasty accident

yeah eh I'll put the kettle on for to make some tea

uh-huh yes

eh what about 'I wanted for to talk to you about it'

you wanted

I wanted for to talk to you about it

no (laughter)

no eh 'when did it happen you'

when did it happen

when did it happen you

ya no I had a very strict English teacher at school a very strict English teacher (laughter)

uh-huh eh 'I've got money belonging him'

no

you have to say 'belonging to him' would you

belonging to him

ehm 'could you mind your head so as I can see out the back'

I would say 'could you mind your head please'

would you say 'so as I can (pause) see out the back'

no I don't think so

no eh I'm going to get some wool for our Pamela a jumper

yes (laughter)

I can't think of a better way of putting than that

(laughter)

eh 'it's all right for you you're used with it'

eh yes

we've been waiting of a bus'

waiting

wa waiting of a bus

of a bus yes or I'm waiting for a bus' but I know it should be for a bus' but

mm you think you might say it sometimes

mm-hm

ehm I think they're going to give him the job permanent

they're going to give the job

give him the job permanent

permanently

yeah eh I don't bother much about the television and that

well I would say I eh yes yes I could say that

right (pause) eh 'many people were there there'

how many people were there there

you would have to say 'how many' (interruption) (unclear)

I I would say 'how many people' yeah

eh eh 'where did you get it at'

yes I I could say that

yes eh 'never mind I'll manage but'

you'll manage but

yes

no (laughter)

yes eh 'never the wonder I couldn't get it to work it's not plugged in'

no I've heard it heard people say that but I haven't said it

you just say 'no wonder' ehm eh 'they've not seen it'

oh no I wouldn't say that myself but I have heard it

you have heard it yes you would say presumably 'they haven't seen it'

mm-hm

ehm eh 'it's far too long this'

yes I have said that I know it isn't good but I might say it (laughter)

eh eh how's your wife and family then

'I wouldn't put the then' on

no mm eh 'Joe can't come tomorrow being as he's working late'

no I wouldn't say that

no eh eh 'what is it he does for a living'

what is

what is it he does for a living

eh yes I might say that

yes ehm 'just light the fire on will you'

no I'd say 'light the fire'

just 'light the fire' yeah ehm eh 'I'll clout yous both in a minute'

yes I would say that if I was annoyed (laughter)

yeah yeah ehm 'how much have they offered we'

no

no eh eh 'pass us one of those plates'

yes yes

yeah ehm eh 'I've broke a plate I'm afraid'

yes I would (pause) say that

'I come this morning but you weren't in'

no (interruption) (laughter)

no eh 'he done it all right'

no

no eh I had forgetten to buy the onions'

no (laughter)

eh 'he give us a pound for doing it'

he gave me a pound

yes yes eh we had went to the coast for a day

no

no I seen Albert on Tuesday

no

eh 'I'm not going to stand being tret like that'

no (laughter)

eh 'that's what happen when you be naughty'

eh yes I could say that

ehm 'I'll probably see him a Saturday'

no (unclear)

(unclear) how do you stand these things

I hate them

you can't talk over them eh 'I doubt he'll have to stay in hospital for a long time'

yes I could say that

yes ehm 'you've letten him get away'

I wouldn't say that like that

ehm eh 'my mother's keep coming in to see us'

I wouldn't say it myself but I've heard it a lot

(unclear) ehm we'll sharp get this done

yes

ehm 'he's as Tyneside as what I am'

no

no

no

ehm (pause) eh and eh just getting a little bit more complicated eh could you give me the opposite of ehm 'I'll be going there this week'

I won't be going there this week

aye ta and again the opposite of 'he's got some'

he hasn't any

mm ta the opposite of 'he's seen that picture'

he hasn't seen that picture

yeah mm-hm the opposite of 'you're working late tonight'

you aren't working late tonight

yes ta eh the opposite of 'I gave him one'

I didn't give him one

eh suppose you went up to somebody in the street to ask for a match what would you normally say

have you a match please

thanks ta