Sound Recordings, Salop
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Type of record: Archive
Title: Sound Recordings, Salop
Classmark: LAVC/SRE/A728r
Site Location(s): Subject - All Stretton, Church Stretton, Shropshire, England, United Kingdom( 52.5539, -2.79788 ); Subject - Chirbury, Chirbury with Brompton, Shropshire, England, United Kingdom( 52.5783, -3.09033 ); Subject - Hilton, Worfield, Shropshire, England, United Kingdom( 52.5667, -2.31667 ); Subject - Prees, Shropshire, England, United Kingdom( 52.8969, -2.66401 ); Subject - Weston Rhyn, Shropshire, England, United Kingdom( 52.9142, -3.0657 ); Subject - Montford, Shropshire, England, United Kningdom( 52.7431, -2.89009 ); Subject - Llanymynech, Carreghofa, Powys, Wales, United Kingdom( 52.7809, -3.08875 ); Subject - Kynnersley, Shropshire, England, United Kingdom( 52.75, -2.48333 )
Date(s): [1966-1980]
Size and medium: 1 x 7.6cm open reel spool; Duration: 70' 02".
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/414779
Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
Description
Compilation of Survey of English Dialects fieldwork recordings (copies) for Salop locations 11Sa1-8. The original recordings were made in 1955 and 1966. The date when this copy tape was made is not known.
[Collector announcement]; George Davis, a retired coal miner, recorded in his home in Weston Rhyn; talks about coal mining - hewing coal; lamps; working conditions; waggons; the working day; getting to work. [Tr. 17]
[Collector announcement]; William Bedoe, a retired teamsman, recorded in Prees; talks about thatching (haystacks and house roofs) - describes the method; training horses for pulling agricultural equipment; local (horse) fairs; Market Drayton Dirty Fair (October 24th); horse dealers; changes in the village; the village mill; ploughing. [Tr. 18]
[Collector announcement]; Mr. R. Morris, a farm labourer, recorded in Llanymynech; talks about ploughing; (thatching) haystacks; the working day; wages; work in bad weather; barns and cowhouses; modern farming and mechanisation; Morton village; waggons and carts; village blacksmith; local manufacture of lime; crops grown locally; pig killing and meat preservation. [Tr. 19]
[Collector announcement]; Jeff Priest, a retired farm labourer, recorded at home in Montford; talks about ploughing; pig killing and meat preservation. [Tr. 20]
[Collector announcement]; Fred Smith, a farm worker, recorded in Kynnersley; talks about ploughs, ploughing, plough teams (waggoners), ploughing matches and types of plough; hay making and stack building; thatching haystacks and house roofs. [Tr. 1]
[Collector announcement]; Joe Humphries, a smallholder, recorded in his home in Chirbury; recollects his childhood; schooling; father's work as a woodman; the family; pig killing and meat preservation; bread baking and preparing the oven; brewing beer; pubs. [Tr. 2]
[Collector announcement]; Jack Jones, a farmer, recorded in his home in All Stretton; talks about wartime; (sheep) farming; horses; hedge laying. [Tr. 3]
[Collector announcement]; Ted Sneed, a retired farm labourer, recorded at home in Hilton; talks about ploughing with horses (technique); mowing before self-binders; mowing machines; farm workers. [Tr. 4]
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Physical and technical conditions
9.5cm/sec. Copy tape. High recording levels.
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