Sound Recordings, Lincolnshire
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Type of record: Archive
Title: Sound Recordings, Lincolnshire
Classmark: LAVC/SRE/A727r
Creator(s): Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009); Tilling, Philip M (1938-); Barry, Michael V (1935-)
Site Location(s): Subject - Beckingham, North Kesteven, Lincolnshire, England, United Kingdom( 53.0667, -0.68333 ); Subject - Crowland, South Holland, Lincolnshire, England, United Kingdom( 52.6757, -0.16849 ); Subject - Lutton, South Holland, Lincolnshire, England, United Kingdom( 52.8084, 0.12497 ); Subject - Old Bolingbroke, East Lindsey, Lincolnshire, England, United Kingdom( 53.1665, 0.01725 ); Subject - Scopwick, North Kesteven, Lincolnshire, England, United Kingdom( 53.1091, -0.40139 ); Subject - Sutterton, Boston, Lincolnshire, England, United Kingdom( 52.9027, -0.09235 ); Subject - Swinstead, South Kesteven, Lincolnshire, England, United Kingdom( 52.7903, -0.49112 ); Subject - Tealby, West Lindsey, North Lincolnshire, England, United Kingdom( 53.3992, -0.27328 ); Subject - Wragby, Lincolnshire, England, United Kingdom( 53.2833, -0.3 ); Subject - Willoughton, Lincolnshire, England, United Kingdom( 53.4274, -0.60063 ); Subject - Fulbeck, Lincolnshire, England, United Kingdom( 53.0419, -0.58632 ); Subject - Swaby, Lincolnshire, England, United Kingdom( 53.28, 0.0783 )
Date(s): [1967-1980]
Size and medium: 1 x 7.6cm open reel spool; Duration: 79' 01".
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/414778
Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
Description
Compilation of Survey of English Dialects fieldwork recordings (copies) for Lincolnshire locations 10L4-15. The original recordings were made in 1952, 1953, 1960 and 1967. The date when this copy tape was made is not known.
[Collector announcement]; Alf Bateman, a retired farm foreman, recorded in Willoughton; relates anecdotes concerning falling in manure and stacking corn. [Tr. 5]
[Collector announcement]; Frederick Ogg, a retired farm worker, and William Banks, a retired farmer, recorded in Tealby; talk about agricultural labouring; hours of work; flour deliveries by waggon; eating cattle cake. [Tr. 6]
[Announcement]; Mr. W. Brothwell, a farmer, recorded in Wragby; talks about calving; jobs for a farm lad; farm horses; the weather and winter of 1947. [Tr. 7]
[Announcement]; Bill Burnett, a retired farm labourer, recorded in Swaby; talks about agricultural labouring; ploughing; daily wage; taking sheep to Louth; a farm fire. [Tr. 8]
[Collector announcement]; Arthur Parker, a retired blacksmith, recorded in Old Bolingbroke; talks about his apprenticeship; trades in the village of the past, compared with the present; mechanisation; making harrows; first job at Horncastle - wages, cost of living; changes in farming - mechanisation. [Tr. 9]
[Collector announcement]; Charles Fox, a retired farm labourer, recorded in his home in Scopwick; relates an anecdote concerning the raising of the runt in a litter of piglets by his father. [Tr. 10]
[Collector announcement]; George Hunt, a retired farm labourer, recorded in his home in Beckingham; talks about pig killing; shooting; fishing; and describes the building of a haystack. [Tr. 11]
[Collector announcement]; Horace Palethorpe, a retired coal man; talks about the parson of Fulbeck; starting to bell ring in 1892, and an incident regarding pay in 1909. [Tr. 12]
[Collector announcement]; Sam Johnson, a retired farm worker, recorded in Sutterton; talks about running hares for shooting; pig feeding; a pub fight. [Tr. 13]
[Collector announcement]; George Ellis, a farm foreman, and Mrs. Paling, recorded in Swinstead; talk about pig killing; schooling; farm work; dancing (pubs, barns) during Swinstead Feast; paying the accordion player at dances; names places of work/employers; Mr. Ellis a foreman on an estate at Swinstead. [Tr. 14]
[Collector announcement]; Dick Needham, a retired farmer, and Mrs. Needham, recorded in Lutton; talk about their early married life; German prisoners of war dyke building during World War One. [Tr. 15]
[Collector announcement]; Bill Chapman, a farm labourer, recorded in his home in Crowland; talks about pig breeding/selling and potato growing. [Tr. 16]
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9.5cm/sec. Copy tape. High recording levels.
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