Sound Recordings, Cambridgeshire
Details
Type of record: Archive
Title: Sound Recordings, Cambridgeshire
Classmark: LAVC/SRE/A671r
Creator(s): Tammivaara, Irmeli
Site Location(s): Subject - Benwick, Cambridgeshire, England, United Kingdom( 52.4956, -0.02472 ); Subject - Witcham, Cambridgeshire, England, United Kingdom( 52.3984, 0.14935 ); Subject - Ingoldisthorpe, Norfolk, England, United Kingdom( 52.8648, 0.50408 ); Subject - Witchford, Cambridgeshire, England, United Kingdom( 52.387, 0.20602 )
Date(s): July 1974
Size and medium: 1 x 12.7cm open reel spool; Duration: 36' 14".
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/414722
Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
Description
[Collector announcement]; Allan Pate, recorded in Witcham on the 11 July 1974 [continued from tape LAVC/SRE/A670r]; talks about Witcham Feast Week in November; local stories/beliefs associated with witches; land ownership and work in the village; local families; agricultural labourers, working lives, wages; large families; school and class sizes. [Tr. 1]
[Collector announcement]; Mildred Willis, recorded in Benwick on the 12 July 1974; talks about the village's pubs; river transport - peat barges, bricks, corn and flour; the railway; water supplies; earth closets. [Tr. 2]
[Collector announcement]; Tom Jones, recorded in Benwick on the 12 July 1974; talks about the village's geographical location; the old river course and the cutting of a new river flowing in to the Wash; experience of World War One on the Western Front; the village Feast (July); transport - cycling, pony and trap, first ride in a motor car; visiting doctor only for the village; village church; building precautions due to peaty soil; the British Fleet sailing through Benwick during the reign of Elizabeth I; [collector announcement]; river barges; closure of the local railway line and the increase in road traffic; [collector announcement]; local soil, fertility and crop farming (no cattle). [Tr. 3]
[Collector announcement]; Doris Wayman [born in Benwick], recorded in Ingoldisthorpe (Norfolk) on the 12 July 1974; talks about village water supplies; turf barges on the Nene River; the village Feast in July - cricket matches, teas, people returning to the village especially for the event; children's games and evening entertainments; music and musical evenings; handicrafts; skating matches and prizes; local soil and potato growing; Sunday School treats; May Day, girls dressing May dolls (May queening), boys running a May Bush; Plough Monday and Plough Witching (mummers' play).
Doris Wayman talks about carriers' carts taking people to Wittlesea station (for trains to Peterborough); Sunday School treats in informant's mother's time - barge trips. [Tr. 4]
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9.5cm/sec. Copy tape.
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