Sound Recordings, Cambridgeshire
Details
Type of record: Archive
Title: Sound Recordings, Cambridgeshire
Classmark: LAVC/SRE/A674r
Creator(s): Tammivaara, Irmeli
Site Location(s): Subject - Witcham, Cambridgeshire, England, United Kingdom( 52.3984, 0.14935 ); Subject - Witchford, Cambridgeshire, England, United Kingdom( 52.387, 0.20602 ); Subject - Pymore, Cambridgeshire, England, United Kingdom ( 52.4444, 0.100467 )
Date(s): July 1975
Size and medium: 1 x 12.7cm open reel spool; Duration: 85' 08".
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/414725
Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
Description
[Collector announcement]; Alice Baker, recorded at Pymore on the 17 July 1975 [continued from tape LAVC/SRE/A673r]; talks about March dust storms; floods of 1912 and 1950s; the condition of local (drove) roads; father's job as a farmer - talk of milking, feeding, manuring, cutting chaff, grinding mangel-wurzles; animal illnesses; describes daily routine on the farm. [Tr. 4]
[Collector announcement]; Charles Baker, recorded at Pymore on the 17 July 1975; talks about the condition and repair of local (drove) roads; new houses in the village [Alice Baker contributes]; land reclamation and drainage; utilities - water, electricity, sewerage. [Tr. 5]
[Collector announcement]; William Tall, recorded in Witcham on the 18 July 1975; talks about skating matches on flooded land, and names local skaters; river skating, c. 1895; harsh winter of 1916 and skating on the Washes; Littleport (Riots). [Tr. 6]
[Collector announcement]; William Tall talks about an unidentified event held in Sutton, for local people and those from Witcham and Mepal, including food, fairground rides and fireworks; talks also of Sutton's town crier. [Tr. 7]
William Tall continues with talk of local tradespeople, including a coffin maker, butcher and baker; apprenticeships; agricultural wages, c. 1900; travelling salesman known as the Packman. [Tr. 1]
[Collector announcement]; Ernest Barber, recorded in Witchford on the 18 July 1975; talks about the parish relief given when his father died; his working life, including stone picking, milk man, horse keeper, engine cleaner on the railway, tractor driving, cement worker, fruit grower; keeping pigs; horse keeper at Chatteris; Witchford Feast in June; harvest time (hours and breaks); striking a bargain with a farmer for work; water carrying; drinking (spring) water; changes to the village; working with horses (foals, commands); dust storms. [Tr. 2]
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9.5cm/sec. Copy tape.
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