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| |  | Eileen Whymark
Born: 26 August 1936
Lives: Boxford, Suffolk
Time lived in area: All my life
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Eileen talks about the house where she's lived for nearly 50 years, which used to be an old farm cottage.
Language of interview: English
Duration: 00:40 (mins/secs)
The participants were asked to describe how they spoke in their own words.
How do you describe your accent: "Suffolk."
Have there been other influences on the way you speak: Not Given
Do you have skills in languages other than English?: No
Other languages: None
EILEEN: We live in an old farm cottage, dun we. Years ago, there used to be, there used to be four there, but now we've got like the two houses, an our next-door neighbour's got like the two houses. They used to be big families, in there, in the just the one you know room house. But now we've got, what four rooms, ent we? Kitchen, yeah, and um four bedrooms. Forty-nine years I've lived in that house, yes. Hagmore Green, it's called, Boxford. OTHER GROUP MEMBER: You could go and take a photograph of that and you'd think that you was going back to eighteen hundred. Unspoiled. EILEEN: The rubbish in our garden! (laughs) INTERVIEWER: Have you ever felt like moving then? EILEEN: Um, sometimes in the winter I think ooh, I'd like to move, but in the summer, no, no I wouldn't, no. I don't think at all no. Like to spend our days there, I think.
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