England 117

Listen to England 117, a 37-year-old man from Leeds, West Yorkshire, England. Click or tap the triangle-shaped play button to hear the subject.

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BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION

AGE: 37

DATE OF BIRTH (DD/MM/YYYY): 10/06/1985

PLACE OF BIRTH: Leeds, England

GENDER: male

ETHNICITY: White/Caucasian

OCCUPATION: sales engineer (solution architect)

EDUCATION: college

AREAS OF RESIDENCE OUTSIDE REPRESENTATIVE REGION FOR LONGER THAN SIX MONTHS:

The subject has lived in the Leeds area his entire life.

OTHER INFLUENCES ON SPEECH:

His spouse was raised in Zimbabwe and, as such, has a South African accent.

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DATE OF RECORDING (DD/MM/YYYY): 20/04/2023

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ORTHOGRAPHIC TRANSCRIPTION OF UNSCRIPTED SPEECH:

I was born in Leeds in 1985 at the Leeds General Infirmary in the town center. I live in Farsley currently, which is, which is in Leeds on the western, on the western side just on the border of Leeds and Bradford. Farsley is part of, uh, a larger borough of Leeds called Pudsey. I think the heritage of Pudsey Bear comes from, comes from there as well.

There’s a lot of industrial history in Farsley; there’s a number of mills like Sunnybank Mills, and there was Cape Mills, which was recently knocked down and, and, and houses were built there instead. Erm, there’s plenty going on, and there’s plenty of industrial history here. We have a, we have a history with textiles in Farsley, and Farsley’s actually referenced as “Farseley” in The Domesday Book, the 1086 Domesday Book. So the place has been around for nearly a thousand years, and it has lots of rich history about it.

My parents were actually from Bramley, which is like the next, erm, the next borough along towards the Leeds city center. And, my family — my, my extended family — has, has been in, in this area in, within the Leeds area for, for 150 years at least. I do have some heritage on my, on my mum’s side, uh, in County Mayo in, in Ireland. And they came over to Leeds during the Great Famine. Erm, so they’ve been here — they were, they came over in the 1860s, I think it was. Erm, but the rest of my family on my dad’s side and the other half of my mum’s side of the family have been in Leeds longer than that as well.

For a job, I’m a solution architect, which is a really fancy way of saying I help sales people as like a technical specialist to sell IT products, erm, to their customers.

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DATE OF TRANSCRIPTION (DD/MM/YYYY): 20/04/2023

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