Sound Recordings, West Yorkshire and North Yorkshire
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Type of record: Archive
Title: Sound Recordings, West Yorkshire and North Yorkshire
Classmark: LAVC/SRE/A581
Creator(s): Brears, Peter C D
Site Location(s): Subject - Conistone, North Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom( 54.1029, -2.03009 ); Subject - Kilnsey, North Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom( 54.1064, -2.04034 ); Subject - Birkby, West Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom( 53.651, -1.796 )
Date(s): July 1971
Size and medium: 1 audiocassette.; Duration: 93' 18".
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/414632
Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
Description
Museums Association Diploma Curatorial Course in Folk Life and Local History field trip. Interviews with employees at Birkby's Clog Makers, Birkby; female clogger (machinist) explains the method of clog making, and the materials used; gives biographical details, and talks about sewing skills, safety clogs, clog wearing by farmworkers, pay and the order in which the parts of the clog are assembled.
Male clogger talks about soiling clogs, clog-making machinery and mechanisation; beech wood used for soles; specialist machinery; enquiries and customers; the effect of strikes on industrial orders; holidays.
Male clogger talks about his work, other clogmakers, the materials used, pay and work rate/piece rates, employees and finding new clogmakers; wearing clogs; types of clog (inc. for miners, steelworkers); clogging as an occupation; working conditions; describes the process of attaching a sole; durability of clogs; clog-making tools; clog sizes; cutting leather; also talks about his breeding/showing budgerigars. [Not all the speech is audible, due to the noise of continuous hammering.]
Male clogger talks about the source of the leather, clog-making equipment and manufacturing process; price of footwear; use of felt in clogs (lining); templates; over clogs used in the steel industry. [Tr. 4]
Peter Brears talks to female informants in Conistone about local buildings, and asks permission to photograph bee-boles [wall recesses made to shelter straw beehives] in their garden; informants mention a bee-bole Society, and troughs for soaking hemp plants.
Jim [?Hall] talks about local buildings in Conistone; air holes in a farm barn used for sheep shearing; talk of shearers/shearing machine; gives directions to a farm where shearing is taking place. Recorded 26 July 1971.[Tr. 1]
Mat Metcalfe, recorded in Kilnsey on the 26 July 1971, whilst shearing sheep by hand; Peter Brears describes the process of hand shearing and rolling the fleece; shearing technique; sheep marking. [Tr. 2]
Female informant [? Mrs. Swires, recorded in a museum] talks about parts of a horse-mower, a cart, turnip topper and wringer (items collected from Nidderdale and Wharfedale); the curator on the trip identifies a clay spade; talk of items collected from a 300-year old house; peat spades; game hanger; round bottles; a putting up rake; a cheese sieve made with horse hair; Tony Green describes a honey extractor; hanging equipment used in slaughtering/butchering; other animal husbandry items. [?Recorded 26 July 1971]. [Tr. 3]
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