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Sound Recordings, Wiltshire

Archive Item: LAVC/SRE/A593

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Type of record: Archive

Title: Sound Recordings, Wiltshire

Level: Item

Classmark: LAVC/SRE/A593

Creator(s): Kylstra, Henk E; Orton, Harold (1898-1975)

Site Location(s): Subject - Avebury, Wiltshire, England, United Kingdom( 51.4167, -1.86667 )

Date(s): [1960]

Size and medium: 1 audiocassette.; Duration: 15' 06".

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/414644

Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture

Description

Compilation of fieldwork recordings [extracts], made in Avebury and possibly copies of original recordings made for the Survey of English Dialects.


Male informant talks about harvest time and the use of horses; reaping by hand; sheaves; mechanisation; use of the frail to thresh corn; agricultural wages; farmworkers' privileges; allotments. [Tr. 2]


Male informant talks about stacking sheaves into a rick, and describes the process of thatching the top. [Tr. 3]


James Shipway talks about rick thatching; the loss of craftspeople in the village; tractors; horses; cattle; ploughing with bullocks; the name for ploughs and constituent parts; names for oxen feet. [Tr. 4]


James Shipway talks about ploughing with oxen; describes the collars used to attach the oxen to a plough or cart; talks about farm wages. [Tr. 5]

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Agricultural labourers

Agricultural wages

Agriculture

Animals

Community Life

Corn

England

Farm mechanisation

Food

Food crops

Harvesting

Implements, utensils etc

Nature

Occupations

Wealth

Wiltshire

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