Sound Recordings, Suffolk
Details
Type of record: Archive
Title: Sound Recordings, Suffolk
Classmark: LAVC/SRE/A741r
Creator(s): Pasanen, Leena
Site Location(s): Subject - Blaxhall, East Suffolk, England, United Kingdom( 52.161, 1.4619 ); Subject - Framsden, Suffolk, England, United Kingdom( 52.1908, 1.21059 )
Date(s): 12 August 1971
Size and medium: 1 x 17.8cm open reel spool; Duration: 51' 47".
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/414792
Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
Description
[Collector announcement]; Sam Friend, a retired horseman, recorded in his home in Framsden. George Ewart Evans is also present, and prompts occasionally. Mr. Friend talks about working as a farm lad from 1900; ploughing for the first time, aged fourteen; working whilst still at school; being taught to milk cows; entertainment - singing and dancing; working with horses. [Tr. 2]
[Collector announcement]; Mrs. Savage [ Priscilla Savage?], recorded at home in Blaxhall. George Ewart Evans is also present, and prompts occasionally. Mrs. Savage talks about her marriage; husband's work as a shepherd; family; gathering wheat for grinding; baking; brick ovens; Dutch oven (fuelled by faggots); brewing beer; Christmas - stockings, bell ringers; handbell ringing on Christmas morning; Christmas Day food; school and schoolmaster - lessons, teachers, corporal punishment, dinners; Christmas holiday; stone picking and wheat (gleaning) from fields; husband's work as a shepherd; lambing time; sheep shearing (in fields). [Tr. 3]
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Physical and technical conditions
9.5cm/sec. Low recording level on Mrs. Savage interview.
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