The Talk of the Toon

Picture Archive: Language & Identity

Tom and Belle Jackson of Ovingham, Northumberland. Tom was a tenor singer in the Prudhoe Gleemen and Ovingham Church choir. For a time, Belle lived and worked in America, and came back with various Americanisms, such as calling people 'dearie'.

Image: (c) Beamish, The Living Museum of the North.
Photo Number 87415. Used with permission.