Sound Recordings, Salop and Staffordshire
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Type of record: Archive
Title: Sound Recordings, Salop and Staffordshire
Classmark: LAVC/SRE/A729r
Creator(s): Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009); Barry, Michael V (1935-)
Site Location(s): Subject - Alton, Staffordshire, England, United Kingdom( 52.9667, -1.88333 ); Subject - Clun, Shropshire, England, United Kingdom( 52.4214, -3.02753 ); Subject - Diddlebury, Shropshire, England, United Kingdom( 52.4658, -2.73249 ); Subject - Kinlet, Shropshire, England, United Kingdom( 52.4197, -2.41461 ); Subject - Mow Cop, Newcastle-under-Lyme district, Staffordshire, England, United Kingdom( 53.1112, -2.21657 ); Subject - Warslow, Staffordshire, England, United Kingdom( 53.1258, -1.87285 ); Subject - Barlaston, Stafford, Staffordshire, England, United Kingdom( 52.942, -2.1705 )
Date(s): [1966-1980]
Size and medium: 1 x 7.6cm open reel spool; Duration: 61' 00".
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/414780
Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
Description
Compilation of Survey of English Dialects fieldwork recordings (copies) for Salop locations 11Sa9-11, and Staffordshire 12St1-4. The original recordings were made in 1955 and 1966. The date when this copy tape was made is not known.
[Collector announcement]; George Thomas, a retired farm labourer, recorded at home in Clun; talks about ploughs and ploughing; hedges and hedge laying; bad winters; cider and cidermaking. [Tr. 5]
[Collector announcement]; Harry [Corfield], a farmer, recorded in one of his fields in Diddlebury; talks about hedging; farm buildings, including a granary and cowhouse; ploughing. [Tr. 6]
[Collector announcement]; William Horton, a farm labourer, recorded at home in Kinlet; talks about threshing corn in winter; harvesting; stack and rick building; thatching ricks; making hay bands/rope; granaries and grinding wheat for flour. [Tr. 7]
[Announcement]; Mrs. R. E. Lomas , recorded in Warslow; talks about making black pudding; curing/salting pork; cheesemaking (process described). [Tr. 8]
[Announcement]; Mr. J. T[orley], a farmer, recorded in Mow Cop; talks about a meeting with a journalist; modern standards of living; colliers' wages; the value of money; starting work; farm labourers' wages; piecework - threshing, whipping rye. [Tr. 9]
[Announcement]; Lewis Warren, a retired sexton, recorded in Alton; relates anecdotes concerning a waggoner and double payment; and working in a cemetery/churchyard. [Tr. 10]
[Announcement]; Mr. W. Pointon, a retired farmer, recorded in Barlaston; talks about ploughing (technique); building and thatching haystacks; farm horses; harvesting hay; milking; seasonal jobs on the farm; the process of cheesemaking; pig killing and meat preservation; changes in farming (mechanisation); involvement on the village council. [Tr. 11]
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Physical and technical conditions
9.5cm/sec. Copy tape. High recording levels. Outside recording affected by wind noise.
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