Sound Recordings, Cambridgeshire
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Type of record: Archive
Title: Sound Recordings, Cambridgeshire
Classmark: LAVC/SRE/A666r
Creator(s): Tammivaara, Irmeli
Site Location(s): Subject - Prickwillow, Cambridgeshire, England, United Kingdom( 52.4169, 0.34596 ); Subject - Pymore, Cambridgeshire, England, United Kingdom ( 52.4444, 0.100467 ); Subject - Aldreth, Cambridgeshire, England, United Kingdom( 52.3399, 0.12041 ); Subject - Haddenham, Camridgeshire, England, United Kingdom( 52.3579, 0.14827 ); Subject - Sutton, Cambridgeshire, England, United Kingdom( 52.388, 0.11866 )
Date(s): June 1974
Size and medium: 1 x 12.7cm open reel spool; Duration: 87' 40".
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/414717
Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
Description
[Collector announcement]; May Hard, recorded in Pymore on 13 June 1974; talks about her father's job as a blacksmith, shoes for horses and donkeys, cart repairs, making harrows, repairing/sharpening ploughs; describes the smithy; making harvest tools and mending binders. [Tr. 5]
[Collector announcement]; Mr. Hard, recorded in Pymore on 13 June 1974; talks about digging turf to burn during the General Strike of 1926; [collector announcement]; road mending; drove roads; electricity and water supplies in Pymore; bird catching; [collector announcement]; working life; grocer's boy; pig killing and sausage making; serving in the Army, 1914-1918; work on the railways. [Tr. 6]
[Collector announcement]; Miriam Cross, recorded in Prickwillow on the 14 June 1974; talks about windmills used to drain the fens; floods in Prickwillow; mother's birthplace; parents' marriage; toll roads to Ely and Littleport; [informant's name announced]; interest in music; organ from Canada; eel catching (gleaving) and eating; eel recipes; pike and bream; describes eel grids to catch eels; skating on the river; skating matches on Welney Washes; ice skates; [informant's name announced]; World War Two and the crash of an American plane in the village in 1935. [Tr. 7]
[Collector announcement]; Ada Walker, recorded in Aldreth on the 15 June 1974; talks about fruit growing; harvest time; land work during World War Two; Ethelreda and Hereward the Wake. [Tr. 8]
[Collector announcement]; Bert Peacock, recorded in Aldreth on the 15 June 1974; talks about Aldreth in the past; sporting activities, cycling, cricket and football; baptisms in the River Ouse, c. 1920s; [informant's name announced]; farm work for the Chivers family; women fruit picking; poultry work. [Tr. 9]
[Collector announcement]; Tom Burton, recorded in Haddenham on the 15 June 1974; talks about farm work; agricultural labourers' wages; the cost of land; changing farming practices; butter making; harvesting, horse power and mechanisation; hours of work; mowing by hand; ditching; threshing; wages; costs; accommodation. [Tr. 1]
[Collector announcement]; Stan Burgess, recorded in Haddenham on the 15 June 1974; talks about being evacuated from his home during a fen flood; flood damage; working with horses - ploughing, harrowing, drilling, hoeing, rolling, carting sugar beet; threshing; horse keeping, feeding, characters; stopping a horse; breaking a horse in. [Tr. 2]
[Collector announcement]; Wilfrid Markwell, recorded in Haddenham on the 15 June 1974; talks about his interest in horticulture and flower growing; nursery apprentice in 1926; growing geraniums; own business; Haddenham as flower growing centre; [informant's name announced]; the tasks of the apprentice nurseryman; training (practical and theory). [Tr. 3]
[Collector announcement]; Herbert Powell, recorded in Sutton on the 17 June 1974; talks about Sutton in the past; population growth; annual fairs and feasts; dancing booths; dance lessons; village hall dances in the 1920s and the musical accompaniment; fairs in September and May each year - describes the rides and stalls. [Tr. 4]. Continues on tape LAVC/SRE/A667r.
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