England Fifty-four
TRANSCRIPTION OF UNSCRIPTED CONVERSATION
And for us children it was fantastic because the block where we lived was one of four that formed a square, and in the middle of this square was a huge playground where we spent all of our time. And we were, we were very fortunate that we had lots of things there that other children didn't have. Um parallel bars, single bars to swing on, monkey climbers, swings, slides, the umbrella, um and. An an umbrella was um a kind of a conical shape with *made out of bars, and at the bottom of the cone there were seats, and this was *kind of suspended on a single pole. It was like an upside-down ice-cream cone on a, on a s.., and it went round. Walkden, and he used to say he was getting the bus to Wogden. [Interviewer: Who said that?] Me dad. He was getting the bus to Wogden, and I thought "Where's this place. Wogden?" And it was Walkden, but me Dad had picked up that in Walkden they spoke with an accent and they called it Wogden. So he was working in Wogden. W A L K D E N: Walkden. [Interviewer: And he said?] Wogden. That's the accent. With.. within the area of of where I lived um there were towns like Bolton, Oldham, Rochdale, Bury. And each would have their own accent. Even Swinton, which was only four miles up from us, had its own accent. And *um in later years I found that when, when I was mixing with people from these places when I talked about a barmcake, they would they would be talking about a muffin or an oven bottom. And a barmcake to me was um something similar to a burger bun, made out of *dough, quite a light, light kind of dough, um and a a similar shape but without any seeds or anything on it. Barmcake: B A R M C A K E.
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Transcribed August 31, 2007 by Kevin Flynn, Associate Editor for Transcriptions