Dialect & Oral History: The East Midlands

Dry Doddington, Lincolnshire - About Dry Doddington

The interview below was recorded by the Lincolnshire Village Archive Group as part of a local oral history and memory project in the villages of Woolsthorpe and Colsterworth. The original recordings were form a collection of local stories which have been put together to form a book and DVD set called 'We the People'

Older Female - Tape 10

Audio Record Form.pdf

In this short extract our interviewee recalls a time when mains electricity was just reaching the houses in her village, and how they let another village 'tap the posts' to share the supply.

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