Sound Recording, North Yorkshire
Details
Type of record: Archive
Title: Sound Recording, North Yorkshire
Classmark: LAVC/SRE/A608r
Creator(s): Whitney, Norman F
Site Location(s): Subject - Glaisdale, North Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom( 54.4393, -0.85316 )
Date(s): [1961/1962]
Size and medium: 1 x 12.7cm open reel spool; Duration: 21' 40".
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/414659
Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
Description
Male and female [?students] interview an unidentified blacksmith in Glaisdale; who describes making horseshoes and fitting a new shoe to a horse (shoeing); describes a horseshoe, and compares shoeing cart horses and race horses; relates incidents shoeing difficult horses; time taken to shoe a horse, normally about one hour; working hours; apprentice at fourteen; earning two pounds a year in 1908/1909, aged seventeen; working at Grosmont Ironstone Mine as a blacksmith (making rails and picks); talks about how quoits are made (informant didn't make them himself); making his own horseshoes - gives dimensions and describes the process of making one; non-slip shoes for horses working steep inclines; charges for shoeing ponies and heavy horses; shows current list of charges (forty shillings for a farm horse); gives the Yorkshire term for a scythe, and describes the implement and its use for mowing.
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