Sound Recordings, Suffolk
Details
Type of record: Archive
Title: Sound Recordings, Suffolk
Classmark: LAVC/SRE/A642r
Creator(s): Evans, George Ewart (1909-1988)
Site Location(s): Subject - Woodbridge, Suffolk, England, United Kingdom( 52.0933, 1.32042 ); Subject - Brandeston, Suffolk, England, United Kingdom( 52.1974, 1.28939 )
Date(s): [1960s]
Size and medium: 1 x 12.7cm open reel spool; Duration: 57' 07".
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/414693
Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
Description
James Knights of Woodbridge [?recorded in 1968] talks about his work with horses; as horse man; learning from the age of thirteen; working in Yorkshire; horses' stables; travelling a stallion; going to Yorkshire, aged about fourteen; tonics for horses, using poison berries; treatment of horses and calming stallions; different temperaments between horse breeds; work with horses, leading a drill; acres drilled per day; importance of time and weather when drilling; pride/interest in his work; linseed cake for horses' coats; commands to horses (different in Yorkshire); describes a working day and living in; ploughing with horses; biographical details; working in Burton upon Trent, barley carrying and at a malthouse; Suffolk and Norfolk men taking seasonal jobs in Burton, in October after the harvest; describes work and conditions in the malthouse, turning and baking the malt; JK's singing and learning through his sister; lodgings in Burton.
James Knights talks about his lodgings in Burton; sings 'Curly Williams' and [unidentified]. [Tr. 3]
Hector Moore of Brandeston [?recorded in 1968] talks about life in the 1930s, and in particular recollects the Christmas of 1930 in Kettleburgh and catching sparrows for Christmas dinner; also remembers a man and his children returning by foot from Burton, where the father had been working in a malthouse. [Tr. 4]
Provenance
The interview with Hector Moore, and part of the interview with James Knights [the section from where he talks about working in Burton to where he sings], are also on tape LAVC/SRE/A643r.
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Physical and technical conditions
9.5cm/sec. Tape runs slowly. High recording level. Adjusted on AC copy.
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