Sound Recordings, Suffolk
Details
Type of record: Archive
Title: Sound Recordings, Suffolk
Classmark: LAVC/SRE/A738r
Creator(s): Pasanen, Leena
Site Location(s): Subject - Framsden, Suffolk, England, United Kingdom( 52.1908, 1.21059 ); Subject - Kettleburgh, Suffolk, England, United Kingdom( 52.1938, 1.31215 )
Date(s): July-August 1971
Size and medium: 1 x 17.8cm open reel spool; Duration: 87' 30".
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/414789
Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
Description
[Collector announcement]; George Creasy, recorded at home in Framsdenon the 30 July 1971; recites the monologues 'Bill and Bob' and 'Harvest Carting in Suffolk'; talks about his working life on local farms; wages; driving lambs to markets in Melton and Diss; sheep shearing and dipping; farm horses; ploughing; four course crop rotation; Harvest Supper/Frolic; manuring fields; past and present compared; estate workers at Framsden Hall; Christmas food; everyday food; Elevenses; Fourses - at harvest time (food/drink in the field); use of candles at home; Diss lamb sale; pubs; gleaning; family size; schooling. [Tr. 2]
[Collector announcement]; Fred Mortimer, recorded at home in Kettleburgh on the 10 August 1971; talks about his siblings; farm work - jobs, hours, wages (piece work); describes a herdsman's day; serving in the Army in France during World War One; schooling; Christmas; school prizes; Mrs. Mortimer talks about her family; domestic jobs; selling milk and butter; describes buttermaking; baking in a brick oven; weekly domestic routine (cleaning, washing, cooking); cider making; using a brick oven to make Million Pies; Sunday School; children's games; meals and meal times; brewing beer; Christmas food; Fred Mortimer describes types of beer and their strengths; the Harvest Horkey, funded by village tradespeople - also Frolic/Largesse spending; the Lord of the Harvest - the head man, who mows first, and who makes a speech at the Harvest Supper; reference to singing and dancing (songs referred to, 'Farmer's Boy' and 'Little Brown Jug'). [Tr. 3]
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