Sound Recordings, Herefordshire and Shropshire
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Type of record: Archive
Title: Sound Recordings, Herefordshire and Shropshire
Classmark: LAVC/SRE/A760r
Creator(s): Upton, Clive S
Site Location(s): Subject - Leominster, Herefordshire, England, United Kingdom( 52.2258, -2.74491 ); Subject - Newport, Shropshire, England, United Kingdom( 52.7668, -2.37734 )
Date(s): [Mid-1970s]
Size and medium: 1 x 12.7cm open reel spool; Duration: 96' 00".
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/414811
Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
Description
Unidentified butcher, recorded in his shop in Leominster; talks about delivering meat (carrying/taking orders); working hours; slaughtering; butchering career - working in Weobley (and Leominster since 1917); veal; quantity of meat sold; humane killer (slaughtering); displaying meat. [Tr. 1]
Frederick Mason and his son, John Mason, recorded in Newport; talk of their family, farm and butchering; Frederick Mason's father's business in Newport; history of the Mason family in the area; Frederick Mason's father; farming and butchering as related businesses; John Mason talks about chartermasters and the production of coal; FM talks about bad debts; JM reads from letters (dated 1930s) regarding butchers' employees and references; FM talks about selling meat from a cart, travelling the Newport area; Masons' employees - discuss the role of the clerk and meat accounts; FM lists the contents of a standing order for a local house, Aston Hall; meat consumption; working hours; FM's father a tenant farmer on the Albrighton Estate, subsequent business in Newport, with FM taking over in 1928; butchers' trade during the Depression; rationing during World War Two.
Frederick Mason continues with talk of his work as a slaughterhouse manager during World War Two; slaughtering and meat supplies; the Butchers' Association; FM on meat supply during World War One (less regulated than during World War Two); meat Inspectors; meat cuts (venison); the price of hides/skins; sausage making/recipes; spiced beef at Christmas; pork butchers/general butchers; use of ice; deliveries by rail from Shrewsbury and Stafford; terms for sheep and pigs; FM describes his father's first Rover car and the condition of the roads; coachbuilder's alteration of a Ford car into a butcher's van; butchers' boys reputations; accidents at work. [Tr. 2]
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