Certainly elements in that of our local north Bucks accent which I love. We're at a bit of crossroads between Cotswolds, Northampton and East Anglian. Well, T-junction then. I'm working on an audio project at the moment which will become an CD and, we hope, a radio programme, in the style of the Charles Parker Radio Ballads. It's based on a farming community in nearby Calverton (anyone see Calverton Manor on 'Restoration Home?) The principal interviewees, all in their seventies and eighties, have got fabulous north Bucks accents. There's plenty of it around still in my village too- but I fear that it's being rapidly lost.
Thanks for the support! Well if you like acoustic music come and see the Living Archive Band in Stony Stratford on May16th. Yeah, I know, weird name, but it's all to do with The Living Archive which is a local organisation concerned with MK community matters and local history before and since the arrival of the new City. All the songs are linked to local people and events, but have a universal appeal, we like to think. Can send more info if you'd like to know more- but this isn't loud foot-stomping stuff!
Crackin' stuff, Frenchie. Very reminiscent of the locals where I live now just over the border from Tring. Mainly the accent is more of a Cockney ('Hertfordshire Slang' is it?) which is like mine (you can take the boy out of Sarf Oxhee...) but a lot of them, particularly those with a more rural background speak exactly like that - a sort of Oxfordshire-Cockney mish mash.
