Sound Recordings, Suffolk
Details
Type of record: Archive
Title: Sound Recordings, Suffolk
Classmark: LAVC/SRE/A742r
Creator(s): Pasanen, Leena
Site Location(s): Subject - Debenham, Suffolk, England, United Kingdom( 52.2242, 1.18172 ); Subject - Helmingham, Suffolk, England, United Kingdom( 52.1692, 1.19784 )
Date(s): August 1971
Size and medium: 1 x 17.8cm open reel spool; Duration: 93' 16".
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/414793
Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
Description
[Collector announcement]; Mr. Goddard, recorded at home in Helmingham on the 13 August 1971; talks about his experience of World War One in France (1914-1916); joining an Indian division attached to an ambulance corps, working in a field hospital on a French chateau; trench warfare; the Somme; return to England; posted to Salonica (1917); posted to Port Said, Alexandria; joined division in Palestine, assault on Gaza; buying wine from Jews; ship to Marseilles in 1919; feelings on returning to England; employment situation in 1919; payment of war certificates; employment situation at the outbreak of World War Two; jobs, inter-war (construction, steam waggon repairs); schooling - exams, geometry, certificates; describes brothers' jobs; sings 'The Volunteer Organist' and a fragment of a North American Indian lamentation.
Mr. Goddard continues with talk of waifs and strays in London, and Dr. Barnado; sings [unidentified fragment]; sings [unidentified]. [Tr. 4]
[Collector announcement]; Leonard Aldous, recorded at home in Debenham on the 14 August 1971; talks about his childhood; leaving school and starting work as an apprentice harness maker (wages, hours); the harness shop as a social centre in the village; harness repairs at farms ceasing after World War One (transport - farmers came to the harness maker); other work, repairing blacksmiths' bellows, carriage interiors; leather tanned in Ipswich; hand stitching harnesses; making threads (waxed, to water proof); making horse collars and saddles; types of leather; costs of harnesses; number of harness shops in the area, and the changing aspect of the trade after World War Two; describes repair work on farms; Suffolk horses, cart horses; drawing competitions (horses pulling loads); use of Suffolk horses; horsemen's remedies (occupational secrets); inspecting each other's work on the farm (e.g. ploughing - if a furrow was not straight, it was said that he's gone over to Will's mothers); skill and
knowledge of the ploughman/farmer; invitation from the Rural Industries Bureau to demonstrate at country shows in the region (e.g. the Suffolk Show), during the 1930s; other work (canvass repairs) as horse work declined; rise in the popularity of horse riding; history of Mr. Aldous' harness shop, and its owners; the decline in the use of horses on farms. [Tr. 1]
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