Sound Recordings, Suffolk
Details
Type of record: Archive
Title: Sound Recordings, Suffolk
Classmark: LAVC/SRE/A737r
Creator(s): Pasanen, Leena
Site Location(s): Subject - Helmingham, Suffolk, England, United Kingdom( 52.1692, 1.19784 )
Date(s): July-August 1971
Size and medium: 1 x 17.8cm open reel spool; Duration: 83' 54".
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/414788
Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
Description
[Collector announcement]; Herbert Miles, a retired farmworker, recorded in his home in Helmingham on the 28 July 1971 ; talks about farm work (as a boy); wages; farm horses; thoughts on past and present; harvest time; the wages of a Second Horseman; Suffolk horses; sheep shearing and dipping; ploughmen and ploughing; horses' feed (bait); winter work on the farm; schooldays; father; heavy land; the effect of bad weather on crops; harvest work, mowing, threshing, women's involvement; wages; holidays/days off; brewing beer; Fourses (rum and tea at four o'clock for workers); haymaking; farmworkers and employment from farm to farm; horseman's dress; ploughs (wood/iron); Helmingham village; Suffolk dialect. [Tr. 4]
[Collector announcement]; Mr. Lambert, a farmworker, recorded at home in Helmingham on the 1 August 1971; talks about his working life; farmers; Suffolk and cross-breed horses; ploughing matches; farm modernisation and mechanisation; cattle and arable farming; comments on old farming methods; ploughing matches; clay soil; trees and hedges; ploughing and ploughmen; meals/breaks; commands to horses; Suffolk dialect; comments on people from Norfolk and Essex; four course crop rotation; wages; days off/holidays; sheep markets; work clothes; poaching; shooting parties; haymaking and thatching stacks; the weather; harvest bonus and suppers; Christmas food; hens (breeds and qualities); decline of livestock and poultry in Suffolk; changes in farming. [Tr. 1]
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