Sound Recordings, Herefordshire and Worcestershire
Details
Type of record: Archive
Title: Sound Recordings, Herefordshire and Worcestershire
Classmark: LAVC/SRE/A744r
Creator(s): Bulmer, A Gillian
Site Location(s): Subject - Longtown, Herefordshire, England, United Kingdom( 51.9558, -2.96761 ); Subject - Madley, Herefordshire, England, United Kingdom( 52.0455, -2.85091 ); Subject - Clevelode, Worcestershire, England, United Kingdom ( 52.1191, -2.26153 )
Date(s): [1974-1980]
Size and medium: 1 x 17.8cm open reel spool; Duration: 157' 15".
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/414795
Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
Description
Copy tape of fieldwork recordings. The original recordings were made in April 1974. The date when this copy tape was made is not known.
[Collector announcement]; Harry Williams, recorded in Longtown on the 28 April 1974; gives biographical details; discusses a wooden cider mill; a guillotine chaff cutter; various local issues, including common land; thoughts on schooling and local people; sings [first line: When the lady called Godiva]; thoughts on his singing; attempts an unidentified song; sings fragment of [first line: Single men be careful]; discusses the weather [another male contributes]. [Tr. 3]
[Collector announcement]; William Jones, recorded in Madley on the 22 April 1974; gives biographical information, including details of his parents; talks of his schooling at Eaton Bishop; learning the blacksmith's trade from his father; reference to Sir Charles Pulley; describes his father's cider mill; cider making - hours of work, amount produced per day, price per hogshead; blacksmithing - shoeing horses and ponies at Eaton Bishop; describes making horseshoes (for ponies), early 1900s; cost of shoes for ponies/cart horses; travelling to farms to shoe horses (gives price per set), working for his father; shoeing the horses of Sir Charles Pulley; father owned Eaton Bishop Post Office in 1911; postal deliveries before working in the smithy. [Trs. 4 and 1]
[Collector announcement]; Dick Williams and his wife, Mrs. Williams, recorded in Longtown on the 23 April 1974; discuss/examine some deeds and a linen bedspread owned by the informants' Sunday School teacher; discuss Mrs. Williams' family; the family farm; Williams families in the area; development issues in the area; local shops. [Tr. 2]
[Collector announcement]; Mr. Hayes, recorded in Clevelode on the 26 April 1974; talks about basketmakers in the village; costs/prices past and present compared; working for his father after leaving school in the early 1920s; hurdle and hamper making; preparation of the willow (boiling); making fruit pots (fruit picking baskets); willow grown locally in informant's grandfather's time, along the River Severn. [Tr. 3]
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Physical and technical conditions
9.5cm/sec. Tape dry in places. Some sticking.
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